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2 Peking U profs have reptdly committed suicide because of purge
Sen discusses taxes in relation to inflation for 1st time in '66; Dirksen says he would vote for tax rise; Javits sees Johnson unwilling to raise taxes in election yr; Mansfield says Johnson is not averse to tax rise if needed
hundreds of practical nurses stop work and picket City Hall; picketing ends as assn atty P J Byrnes agrees to election with SCMEF; Comr Yerby repfs hosps crippled; concedes pay is low; Gotbaum repeats charge against Teamsters, scores Byrnes; Haber calms Byrnes-Gotbaum dispute
Soviet athletes refusal to compete in US track meet because of US policy in Vietnam seen extension of pol freeze to exch field
lr questions failure of orgns that protested US tests to demonstrate against French test
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 1966, covering July 12, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Mamas & The Papas
Frank Sinatra
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
1966Jeff Bucknum, American race car driver[â ]
Jeff Bucknum is an American race car driver. Jeff is the son of Formula One and Championship Car racer Ronnie Bucknum.
1966Annabel Croft, English tennis player and sportscaster[â ]
Annabel Nicola Croft is a British former professional tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup.
1966Taiji, Japanese bass player and songwriter (died 2011)[â ]
Taiji Sawada , also known mononymously as Taiji, was a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former bassist of the rock band X Japan. X Japan rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, credited as founders of the Japanese visual kei movement. After leaving X Japan in January 1992, Taiji went on to work with many other bands, including Loudness and D.T.R.
1966D. T. Suzuki, Japanese philosopher and author (born 1870)[â ]
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki , self-rendered in 1894 as Daisetz, was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, and translator. He was an authority on Buddhism, especially Zen and Shin, and was instrumental in spreading interest in these to the West. He was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Sanskrit literature. Suzuki spent several lengthy stretches teaching or lecturing at Western universities and devoted many years to a professorship at Åtani University, a Japanese university of the Åtani School of JÅdo ShinshÅ«.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[â ]