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Hosps Dept execs concerned over scarcity of spring grads from munic nursing schools accepting city posts
HR Armed Services Com, in rept on mil procurement bill, attacks McNamara policies, accuses him of 'almost obsessional' dedication to cost factors, raising specter of decision-maker who 'knows price of everything and value of nothing'; rept reasserts Cong's const role in defense planning
R F Wagner completes 4 lectures on urban problems
US reptd agreeable to moving Council from Paris to Brussels
E Shanahan series on pending SEC rept and problems facing indus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 18, 1966, covering May 18, 1966.
The Mamas & The Papas
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Barbra Streisand
1966Renata Nielsen, Polish-Danish long jumper and coach[†]
Renata Pytelewska-Nielsen is a Polish-born former Danish long jumper.
1966Michael Tait, American singer-songwriter and producer[†]
Michael DeWayne Tait is an American contemporary Christian music artist. Tait met Toby McKeehan in 1984 when he was in high school. Both Tait and McKeehan and Michael met Kevin Max while attending Liberty University in the late 1980s, and together they formed four-time Grammy winning band DC Talk, releasing five acclaimed studio albums. Following the group's entrance into hiatus in 2000, Tait had success in a solo career, founding a self-titled band that toured until 2007. Following his solo band's dissolution, Tait was the lead singer of Newsboys from 2009 to 2025. Aside from singing, Tait is also a self-taught guitar player. Tait has a sister, Lynda Randle, who is a Southern Gospel singer.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]