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M Mihajlov arrested, Yugoslavia, 3 days before meeting set to discuss founding of opposition magazine
HR approves Repr Cramer amendment to Adm's proposed '66 civil rights bill making it Fed crime to use interstate facilities to incite or carry out a riot; amendment text; proposal carries maximum 5 yrs in jail and $10,000 fine; defeats Justice Dept request for milder version and proposal to indemnify persons injured in exercise of their const rights
Secs Connor and Fowler, after separate confs with Johnson, hold guideposts policy should be revised but not abandoned, news confs; Connor suggests guideposts take account of productivity rates within specific industries
Freeman again raises '67 acreage allotment by 15% to meet US and foreign needs; sees '67 prices well above Fed support levels despite total 16.6-million-acre increase and possible record 1.6-billion bu output; Under Sec Schnittker denies wheat prices are major factor in bread price rise, HR subcom
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 3, 1966, covering August 9, 1966.
The Beatles
Frank Sinatra
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
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1966Vinny Del Negro, American basketball player and coach[†]
Vincent Joseph Del Negro is an American former professional basketball player. He was the head coach of the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls from 2008 to 2010, and the Los Angeles Clippers from 2010 to 2013. Del Negro is currently an analyst with NBA TV.
1966Linn Ullmann, Norwegian journalist and author[†]
Karin Beate "Linn" Ullmann is a Norwegian author and journalist. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published seven novels.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]