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The Board of Education, concerned that a six-week strike by plumbers in the construction industry will prevent a dozen schools from opening in September, 1967, is canceling its contracts with strikebound plumbing contractors.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2--Joblessness among Negroes and the unskilled has risen this summer, the Labor Department reported today. This occurred even though over-all unemployment continued at the relatively low level of 3.9 per cent of the labor force.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2 Federal District Judge Joseph S. Lord 3d ruled today that Pennsylvania law prohibits Girard College from excluding Negroes.
A committee of Negro Demo- cratic leaders has gone on record in favor of the nomination of a Negro for Lieutenant Governor and against the idea of choosing a Negro candidate for the lesser post of Attorney General.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 The State Department announced today the expulsion of a Soviet diplomat charged with trying to buy secret information on the United States space program, missiles and aircraft.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 31, 1966, covering September 3, 1966.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Beatles
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Ray Conniff
Frank Sinatra
1966Steven Johnson Leyba, American painter and author[†]
Steven Johnson Leyba is an American artist, painter, fine art book maker, author, spoken word performance artist, and musician. Leyba is of Mescalero Apache, Navajo, Cherokee, Paiute, Menominee, Jewish ancestry. He has been called the father of “Sexpressionism” by art critic Carlo McCormick.
1966Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian historian and politician[†]
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Ryzhkov is a Russian historian and liberal politician, a former co-chair of People's Freedom Party (2006–2014) and former Russian State Duma member (1993–2007), First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and the leader of parliamentary group Our Home – Russia. He is a candidate of historical sciences, a professor of the Higher School of Economics, and an anchorman of a number of Echo of Moscow radio programs.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]