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NYC Chief Inspector Garelik urges pub to rept police who lure homosexuals into breaking law to arrest them; ACLU NY chap aide charges 'entrapment' methods are widespread; Mattachine Soc queries appeal worth
Labor Dept wkly wholesale index shows 4% drop from Feb avg
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Adm orders delay of all trips to S Vietnam
Labor has indicated majority of 97 seats, again fails to win majority of popular vote; table shows major parties percentage of popular vote in '59, '64 and '66 elections; total vote was 27,228,420 as against 27,259,363 in '64; Liberals gain seats while losing in total vote
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 30, 1966, covering April 2, 1966.
SSgt Barry Sadler
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
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Paul Revere & The Raiders
1966Bill Romanowski, American football player and actor[†]
William Thomas Romanowski is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 16 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Nicknamed "Romo" and "RomoCop", he spent the majority of his career with the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos. He won four Super Bowl titles, two each with the 49ers and Broncos, and twice received Pro Bowl honors during his Broncos tenure.
1966Teddy Sheringham, English international footballer and coach[†]
Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham is an English football manager and former player. He played as a forward, mostly as a second striker, in a 24-year professional career. Sheringham was part of the Manchester United team that won the treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League in 1999. He scored the equalising goal and provided the assist for the club's winning goal in the 1999 UEFA Champions League final against Bayern Munich that sealed it, with both goals coming in injury time of the second half.
1966C. S. Forester, English novelist (born 1899)[†]
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]