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Pres Johnson asks legis to permit Govt to sell participations in loans held by Govt
Dirksen fails by 7 votes to muster 2/3 majority needed to pass his amendment; again thwarted by bipartisan liberal Sen group led by Douglas, Tydings, Proxmire; 55 Sens, including Mansfield, vote for amendment, 38 oppose it; Dirksen indicates he will offer it again, '67; Mansfield says current defeat will end efforts because too many states have already complied with Sup Ct ruling
Premier Pompidou cites '62 missile crisis as example of how presence of US bases in France could make France target of nuclear attack, s, French Assembly; notes Pres Kennedy advised France of his countermeasures after they wore taken
Peace Corps to send 900 more volunteers for large-scale test program to aid peasants raise output; Development & Resources Corp to provide 9 advisers under 2-yr, $835,000 pact
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 20, 1966, covering April 21, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
SSgt Barry Sadler
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
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Nancy Sinatra
1966Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.[†]
Rastafari is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement by scholars of religion. There is no central authority in control of the movement and much diversity exists among practitioners, who are known as Rastafari, Rastafarians, or Rastas.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]