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ACLU NY chap exec dir Neier charges Educ Bd programs to aid disadvantaged youths in parochial schools will foster segregation because these schools are viewed as 'refuge' from increasingly Negro and Puerto Rican pss
series on war impact in US; E L Dale Jr on impact on econ
USMC study says N Vietnam can continue to indefinitely absorb casualties in South at present rate; suggests Hanoi has 40,000 troops in South and can maintain level by infiltration despite allied operations; another US Defense Dept study says North can maintain present strength in South for only 8 yrs
Nixon ends 3-day visit; sees no possibility of negotiated settlement, urges escalation with increased ground troops to shorten conflict; says as an Amer he could not support Nguyen Cao Ky urging invasion of North but that he is sympathetic
crane operators vote to return to work; accept 3-yr pact with Bldg Trades Employers Assn and Gen Contractors Assn providing $1.25-an-hr wage-benefit rise; workmen of 21 other unions to return to work; plumbers strike continues
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 3, 1966, covering August 8, 1966.
The Beatles
Frank Sinatra
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
1966Chris Eubank, English boxer[†]
Christopher Livingstone Eubank is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight and super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995, and is ranked by BoxRec as the third best British super-middleweight boxer of all time.
1966John Hudek, American baseball player and coach[†]
John Raymond Hudek is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played all or part of six seasons in the majors, from 1994 until 1999, for five different teams. He appeared in a total of 194 major league games, all in relief, making the 1994 NL All-Star team as a rookie. Once, in a game on September 5, 1997, he was tasked to pitch against Brian Johnson with runners on. With two strikes, catcher Tony Pena seemed to call for an intentional walk before Hudek threw a pitch in the middle of the zone for a strike that struck-out Johnson.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]