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campaign resumes with all candidates running; pro-Bosch leaflets dropped from plane over Santo Domingo
Chmn O'Grady says NYCTA will not be able to pay its bills and will have to raise fare if it does not get $69-million NYS Legis promised by July 1; cites $6-million-a-mo operating losses since Jan; Lindsay has asked for legis enabling city to turn money over to NYCTA
Tri Quang blames Johnson for Buddhists who have died during pol crisis, news conf; scores him for allowing Nguyen Cao Ky to use troops against Danang; appeals to him to undercut Nguyen Cao Ky regime as Pres Kennedy undercut Ngo Dinh Diem regime in '63; Phan Van Khoa decides not to let 1st Div troops take over control of radio station; fears schisms in community since most of soldiers are from Hue; troops quietly leave Hue; Phan Van Khoa family evacuated to Danang after he gets threats against their lives; student leaders again threaten to bum US consulate; say they will wait 48 hrs to see if Johnson shifts US policy; Nguyen Chanh Thi reptdly orders arrest of student and teacher who led attack on cultural center; he and Phan Xuan Nhuan believed to be collaborating with Phan Van Khoa
2 paintings believed to be by A Duerer and worth at least $1-million, missing from castle at Schwartzburg, Ger, occupied by US troops during World War II, discovered in collection of E I Elicofon, NYC; illus; he bought paintings in '46 for $500 from unknown man
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 25, 1966, covering May 30, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
The Rolling Stones
Barbra Streisand
Soundtrack
1966Sonya Curry, mother of American basketball players[†]
Sonya Alicia Curry is an American educator and author. She is the mother of professional basketball players Stephen Curry and Seth Curry.
1966Thomas Häßler, German footballer and manager[†]
Thomas Jürgen "Icke" Häßler is a German former professional footballer. He played as a midfielder throughout his career. At club level, he made a century of appearances for four teams: 1. FC Köln, Karlsruher SC and 1860 Munich in Germany and Roma in Italy, and spent a season apiece with Juventus, Borussia Dortmund and SV Salzburg. Häßler also appeared over 100 times for the Germany national team.
1966Stephen Malkmus, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Stephen Joseph Malkmus is an American musician best known as the primary songwriter, lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Pavement, The Hard Quartet, and as a solo artist.
1966Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.[†]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of around 112 million, the DR Congo is the most populous nominally Francophone country in the world. French is the official and most widely spoken language, though there are over 200 indigenous languages. The national capital and largest city is Kinshasa, which is also the economic center. The country is bordered by the Republic of the Congo, the Cabinda exclave of Angola, and the South Atlantic Ocean to the west; the Central African Republic and South Sudan to the north; Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania to the east; and Zambia and Angola to the south. Centered on the Congo Basin, most of the country's terrain is covered by dense rainforests and crossed by many rivers, while the east and southeast are mountainous.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]