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Pelham Bay Taxpayers and Civic Assn pres Mrs F Colucci fight for proposed playground at Wilkinson and Mayflower Avs and Hutchinson Pkwy revd; construction was due to start in '65 but project was shelved because of demapping of expressway
Pors and illus
USAF seeks to contract with leading unidentified univ to make intensive studies of reptd sightings; move marks departure from previous policy but does not indicate USAF now places credibility in repts; seen effort to refute charges that USAF conceals data
inflation pressure and guideposts issue revd
H Baer Jr to be apptd bd exec dir
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 10, 1966, covering August 14, 1966.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Frank Sinatra
Soundtrack
1966Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer[†]
Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant of 1986 and also placing sixth in Miss World 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in The Flintstones (1994) and Bulworth (1998) as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
1966Karl Petter Løken, Swedish-Norwegian footballer[†]
Karl Petter "Kalle" Løken is a Norwegian businessman and former footballer. He became the CEO of Kværner ASA in May 2018.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]