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Lindsay says Standard & Poor's move was yr or 6 mos behind other Services, TV appearance; says all services have Joined in saying city has corrected its position
Times survey of critical nurse shortage shows 60% vacancy rate at munic hosps, 25% rate at private hasps; dry opens recruiting drive; specialists comment on why nursing loses its appeal as career; illus; small number of Negro nurses noted
Govt suspends all natl secular univ classes through Aug 16 to allow school adms to comply with decree against leftist activities; cites rising leftist agitation; Ongania and Min Martinez conf on order; leftist Univ Fed demands release of over 100 students jailed in police raid on BA Univ
WASHINGTON, July 31-- Rejection by airline machinists of the agreement that their leaders, the airlines and President Johnson announced last Friday brought immediate Congressional action to pass legislation to end the dispute.
Mayor Lindsay charges Fed Govt defaulted on funds promised for Project Head Start; says Dir Shriver withheld funds planned to rehabilitate chs for Head Start centers out of fear that Cong would not fund such a program; Econ Opportunity Office spokesman comments
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 27, 1966, covering August 1, 1966.
The Beatles
Frank Sinatra
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Lou Rawls
1966James St. James, American club promoter and author[†]
James St. James is a television and internet personality, author, celebutante, frequent collaborator with Mathu Andersen, and former "Club Kid", a member of the New York City club scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
1966Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (born 1941)[†]
Charles Joseph Whitman was an American mass murderer and Marine veteran who became known as the "Texas Tower Sniper". On August 1, 1966, Whitman used knives to kill his mother and his wife in their respective homes, then went to the University of Texas at Austin with multiple firearms and began indiscriminately shooting at people. He fatally shot three people inside UT Austin's Main Building, then accessed the 28th-floor observation deck on the building's clock tower. There, he fired at random people for 96 minutes, killing an additional eleven people and wounding 31 others before he was shot dead by the Austin Police Department. Whitman killed a total of seventeen people; the 17th victim died 35 years later from injuries sustained in the attack.
1966Charles Whitman kills 15 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.[†]
Charles Joseph Whitman was an American mass murderer and Marine veteran who became known as the "Texas Tower Sniper". On August 1, 1966, Whitman used knives to kill his mother and his wife in their respective homes, then went to the University of Texas at Austin with multiple firearms and began indiscriminately shooting at people. He fatally shot three people inside UT Austin's Main Building, then accessed the 28th-floor observation deck on the building's clock tower. There, he fired at random people for 96 minutes, killing an additional eleven people and wounding 31 others before he was shot dead by the Austin Police Department. Whitman killed a total of seventeen people; the 17th victim died 35 years later from injuries sustained in the attack.
1966Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.[†]
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his death in 1976. Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese socialism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]