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Youth Against War and Fascism group demonstrates outside NYSE, trades punches and insults with angry spectators; latter encouraged by Amer Patriots for Freedom members; police restore order; illus
NYC Housing and Redevelopment Bd and NYS Housing Div officially ban secret fee-splitting in development of Mitchell-Lama projects; practice was revealed in SIC probe, Jan; bd decrees no future contracts will be approved unless gen contractors and sponsors make full disclosure of contractor's profit allocation; similar requirement adopted by housing div, Mar, and city and state efforts to draft uniform standards for projects noted
UAR reptdly secretly arrested 20 UAR army officers who plotted against Nasser because of his decision to end peace talks; 2d mil ring reptdly charged with embezzling Yemini war veterans death and disability benefits
Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, sole distributor in US, recalls all supplies; holds repts on black-mkt operations hurt its reputation; co, which gives drug to authorized research centers, puts output at no more than a few lbs since developing it, '43; repts illegal 'basement lab' output much higher; seeks FDA approval to continue giving LSD to Govt scientists for research
Nguyen Van Man threatens more st demonstrations in Danang unless junta resigns immediately
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 13, 1966, covering April 15, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
SSgt Barry Sadler
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Nancy Sinatra
1966Samantha Fox, English singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Samantha Karen Fox is an English pop singer and former glamour model from Crouch End in North London. She has appeared on reality television shows and has occasionally worked as a television presenter and actress.
1966Mott Green, American businessman (died 2013)[†]
Mott Green was an American businessman and chocolatier, who founded the Grenada Chocolate Company in 1999. An edition of The Food Programme was devoted to Mott Green in June 2013.
1966Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan (born 1906)[†]
Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury was a Pakistani politician, journalist, sportsman and writer from erstwhile East Bengal, now Bangladesh, who served in the political spheres of British India and Pakistan.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]