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AFL-CIO reprs unofficially shun conf in opposition to election; US employer delegation continues to participate; Pres Johnson confers with AFL-CIO pres Meany, urges end to boycott
Deputy Atty Gen Clark, speaking for Johnson Adm, charges auto indus seeks to delay and undermine effectiveness of Fed safety standards, lr to Sen Commerce Com; holds indus-proposed amendments to pending legis could delay standards by at least 5 yrs; scores its proposed criteria for standards and amendment to give Vehicle Safety Comm primary responsibility for drafting standards; other criticism noted; Pres Johnson meets with delegation of 7 Govs in Washington for safety confs; asks their help in speeding Cong action on safety bill; Gov Hansen pledges delegation's support, says only Romney had reservations
Brydges to withdraw compromise offer and seek Sen passage of strong no-strike bill as proposed by Rockefeller panel; Repub Sen leaders talks with Assembly Dems break down; Travia sees no chance of Repub bill being passed by Assembly
Lindsay scores Rockefeller failure to press for personal income tax, closed cabinet meeting; avoids pub criticism of Gov although noting taxes as election issue; Lindsay adm privately links Rockefeller to Brydges plan; Travia denounces Brydges plan; O'Connor charges Rockefeller 'honest broker' role is pose; lauds Lindsay efforts; Rockefeller spokesman says he has no plans to meet with Lindsay or Legis leaders; Lindsay adm sees income tax defeated unless Rockefeller backs it
Lindsay to remove members of recognized unions from Career and Salary Plan Jurisdiction in move to end curbs that have hindered collective bargaining; plan, set up when unions were weak, thwarts efforts of present, stronger unions to get higher wages
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 1, 1966, covering June 4, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
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Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Barbra Streisand
1966Cecilia Bartoli, Italian soprano and actress[†]
Cecilia Bartoli OMRI is an Italian mezzo-soprano widely known in the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini and Vivaldi and for lesser-known music of the Baroque and Classical periods. She has also sung soprano and alto repertory.
1966Svetlana Jitomirskaya, American mathematician[†]
Svetlana Yakovlevna Jitomirskaya is a mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics. She is a distinguished professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech and UC Irvine. She is best known for solving the ten martini problem along with mathematician Artur Avila.
1966Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2017)[†]
Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He is also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch–Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory.
1966Bill Wiggin, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales[†]
Sir William David Wiggin is a former British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Herefordshire, previously Leominster, from 2001 to 2024.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]