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terrorists fire from sampans at tent city of Nhabe guarding fuel stores, Saigon area
HR, 371-0, approves Fed safety standards bill; expands Sen version to cover all motor vehicles including used cars; adds sec to require new cars be equipped with tires sufficient to carry full load of passengers and reasonable amt of luggage; defeats proposal to add $50,000 criminal penalties for violation of standards; votes, 205-168, to uphold com decision to let Commerce Sec make apptmts to 13-member advisory council; restores measures making clear that penalties apply to mfrs who fail to notify purchasers of defects and permitting inspection of auto plants by Fed officials to make sure cars are built in accordance with standards
O'Connor tours Schenectady, Oswego, Dunkirk, Buffalo; ignores rivals; scores Rockefeller on finances, Fed aid, water pollution, drug addiction, s, Schenectady; gets more delegate support; expects Kennedy active help in last 2 wks of campaign; concedes he has little chance for Liberal support; sees 'strange suspicion' among many Liberal and Reform leaders that 'Irish Cath Dem DA' cannot be liberal; Erie delegation holds reception for him; Chmn Crangle backs him; O'Connor gets 66 Nassau delegates, remaining 14 pledged to Samuels; O'Connor, Samuels, Roosevelt had appeared before delegation; O'Connor claims rank-and-file Liberal support
Johnson plans flying 'nonpol' tour through Upstate NYS and New Eng, ending in visit to Campobello Internatl Pk; Sen R F Kennedy to accompany him in NYS; Sen Javits invited
Hadas, Moses
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 1966, covering August 18, 1966.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Frank Sinatra
Soundtrack
1966Gustavo Charif, Argentinian director and producer[†]
Gustavo Charif is an Argentine writer, visual artist and film director. His works are a sort of Dadaism mixed with the secular poetry of actual times.
1966Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.[†]
The Battle of Long Tan took place in a rubber plantation near Long Tân, in Phước Tuy Province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. The action was fought between Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) units and elements of the 1st Australian Task Force.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]