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Peking's carefully worded reaction to bombings reinforces Adm calculation that China will not directly intervene; speculation on reasons
Johnson stresses US desire for nonproliferation treaty and urges USSR help find 'acceptable compromise in language,' news conf; seen in effect giving treaty priority over NATO nuclear sharing
Liberal party sues, Fed ct, to reapportion Cong dists; suit is 1st in NYS to seek statewide redistricting; party charges dists are unconst, violate Sup Ct's 1-man, 1-vote ruling, have 'unjustifiable' population differences, that many lack compactness and contiguity; holds dists that usually elect Repubs are less populous, those that elect Dems more populous; offers plan under which no dist would vary in population by over 4.7%
JOHNSON CITY, Tex., July 5--President Johnson, confronted with what appears to be rising racial tension in many of the nation's cities, stressed today the steps being taken to alleviate the sources of the tension.
Natl Opinion Research Center study repts 80% of residents of integrated neighborhoods live in 1-family homes; repts no differences in value, quality of housing and availability of mortgage money between comparable integrated and nonintegrated neighborhoods; found 82 integrated areas in 3 cities studied (Atlanta, Washington, San Jose); study disproves theory housing values fall when neighborhood is integrated
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 1966, covering July 6, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
Frank Sinatra
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
1966Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player and manager (born 1892)[†]
Samuel Pond "Sad Sam" Jones was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox between 1914 and 1935. Jones batted and threw right-handed. His sharp breaking curveball also earned him the nickname "Horsewhips Sam".
1966Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.[†]
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica, is a state in which political power rests with the public (people), typically through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy. Although a republic is most often a single sovereign state, subnational state entities that have governments that are republican in nature may be referred to as republics.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]