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Calif U team under Dr Li repts determining complete chem structure of human growth hormone, produced by pituitary gland, article in Amer Chem Soc Journal; used material totaling about 1/6 oz extracted from 5,000 pituitary glands; aided by Amer Cancer Soc; Drs Liu and Dixon on team
Conn U Loeb Awards presented
Johnson raises '67 acreage quota 15% to increase output 200-million bu to meet world needs; comments, s; farmers seen gaining up to $150-million from expected record crop; move seen aimed at ending farm orgn furor over Adm efforts to curb inflation
Group of leading US businessmen to visit Paris for talks with French businessmen on econ frictions; US group led by ex-Sec Dillon; members listed; ex-Min Baumgartner heads French group
visits Hebrew U, Jerusalem; police clash with students protesting establishment of diplomatic ties with W Ger; illus; bar Adenauer plan to meet with students; students to boycott classes until Cabinet revs alleged police brutality; march to Premier Eshkol's office
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 4, 1966, covering May 6, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Barbra Streisand
The Rolling Stones
SSgt Barry Sadler
1966Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.[†]
The Moors murders were a series of child killings committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in and around Manchester, England, between July 1963 and October 1965. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans—aged between 10 and 17, at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. The bodies of two of the victims were discovered in 1965, in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial. Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]