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early returns show governing center-left coalition reinforced its position and cut Communist strength slightly; Communist vote drops about 4%, Rome Prov
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Sviridoff proposes drastic change in antipoverty program, rept; would sot up decentralized Community Corps to replace local orgns; corps would carry out most of antipoverty operations in diets of 100,000 to 300,000 population but may have other groups beneath them; would have separate citywide corp, financed partly by private money, that would undertake projects that are experimental or too controversial to be carried out with pub funds; proposes Council Against Poverty be reconstituted and made solo citywide policy-making body for community-action programs; would abolish Econ Opportunity Com and Antipoverty Operations Bd
US Sup Ct, 7-2, upholds '65 Fed Voting Rights Act sec (Kennedy amendment) permitting literacy in Spanish for Puerto Rican residents as proper prerequisite to voting, J and M Morgan suit; Justice Brennan writes majority opinion, Justice Harlan dissent, joined by Justice Stewart; decision reverses Nov '65 3-judge Fed Ct ruling; Brennan holds legis was appropriate to enforce 14th Amendment which bars states from adopting legis that would deny equal protection of law; Harlan says that Cong, in overriding NYS Eng-language literacy test, usurped ct right to decide whether Puerto Rican residents of NYS were deprived of equal protection right; related case (Cardona) brought against Eng literacy requirement sent back to NYS cts
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 8, 1966, covering June 14, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
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Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
1966The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.[†]
The Roman Curia comprises the administrative institutions of the Holy See and the central body through which the affairs of the Catholic Church are conducted. The Roman Curia is the institution of which the Roman Pontiff ordinarily makes use in the exercise of his supreme pastoral office and universal mission in the world: thus curialism refers traditionally to an emphasis on the supreme authority of the Holy See within the Catholic Church. It is at the service of the Pope and bishops, fulfilling their function with an evangelical spirit, working for the good and at the service of communion, unity and edification of the Universal Church and attending to the demands of the world in which the Church is called to fulfill its duty and mission.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]