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MADRID, March 19 A tubular object, presumed to be a missing United States hydrogen bomb, was gingerly shifted along the Mediterranean Sea bottom today to prevent it from vanishing in a submarine canyon.
article on Watts as community unable to help itself without outside aid; holds community's lack of contact with other areas is major problem and source of alienation; no one appears to speak for community
emergency and analysis of trouble revd; diagrams of craft, stabilizers and re-entry system; astronauts illus boarding recovery ship
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 16, 1966, covering March 20, 1966.
SSgt Barry Sadler
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Beatles
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1966Demetrios Galanis, Greek artist (born 1879)[†]
Demetrios Galanis was an early twentieth-century Greek artist and friend of Picasso. In 1920, the year he completed his Seated Nude, he exhibited alongside such major figures of modern art as Matisse and Braque, while from 1921 on he also exhibited alongside Juan Gris, Dufy, Chagall, and Picasso.
1966Johnny Morrison, American baseball player (born 1895)[†]
John Dewey Morrison, nicknamed "Jughandle Johnny", was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of ten seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Robins. For his career, he compiled a 103–80 record in 297 appearances, with a 3.65 earned run average and 546 strikeouts. May was a member of the 1925 World Series champion Pirates, pitching three times during their seven-game defeat of the Washington Senators. In World Series play, he recorded no decisions in 3 appearances, with a 2.89 earned run average and 7 strikeouts.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]