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major banks raise minimum rate on short-term business loans to 5 1/2%, 2d rise in prime rate in 3 mos; move initiated by Morgan Guaranty Trust; bankers link tech money mkt factors, strong demand for credit; Adm and Fed Reserve silent; graph shows rates, '57-66
Reform Clubs name Weiss to oppose Farbstein
3 defendants convicted of 1st-degree murder in Malcolm's death
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 1966, covering March 11, 1966.
SSgt Barry Sadler
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Beatles
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1966John Thompson III, American basketball player and coach[†]
John Robert Thompson III is an American professional basketball coach and executive who has been the assistant coach for the United States men's national basketball team since 2017. He previously served as the head coach of the men's basketball team at Georgetown University. He grew up in Washington, D.C., and was named first team All-Metro by The Washington Post while playing for Gonzaga College High School in 1984. Thompson was hired on April 20, 2004, to replace Craig Esherick and was fired at the end of the 2017 season. Prior to being hired at Georgetown, Thompson was the head coach for four years at his alma mater, Princeton University. Thompson is the son of John Thompson Jr., Georgetown's head coach from 1972 to 1999, and is a 1988 graduate of Princeton University.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]