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Resigning Pres aide Prof Goldman holds Pres Johnson's confidence was badly hurt by criticism of mil intervention
Guard movement seen weakening adm machinery of orderly govt; appeal for reason seen having quieting effect in Peking, but other cities, where party control is tenuous, appeal for end to violence; Jenmin Jih Pao recalls that Mao had said party must 'dare to let the masses make the revolution'; urges Guards not carry movement to factories or rural communes; movement seen threatening econ of nation; Guards reptdly demand that people with 'feudal' or 'bourgeois' names change them; seek abolition of certain old customs
Hanseatic (liner): engine-room fire engulfs 5 docks of liner, Hudson River Pier 84, NYC, 4 hrs before scheduled sailing; illus; 3 passengers, 500 crewmen evacuated; leaking diesel oil blamed; Fire Chief O'Hagan says blaze at sea would have been major catastrophe; difficulty in fighting fire described
Rose repts poll taken for Liberals shows O'Connor will defeat Rockefeller by 600,000 votes, even with Roosevelt heading Liberal ticket; poll shows Roosevelt will get 1/2 million votes; does not take Conservative party into account; Rose defends choice of Roosevelt, int; says Liberal aim is not to ruin O'Connor or Dems; says party is fighting for principle, which Roosevelt embodies; says party opposition to O'Connor is based on 'deal'; concedes that until recently, party was 'down' on Roosevelt but stresses he has matured; origin of Liberal dislike of Roosevelt noted; Rose denies Roosevelt was chosen because of Liberal's fear of losing Line C on ballot
nominating conv; O'Connor nominated for Gov
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 7, 1966, covering September 8, 1966.
The Beatles
Soundtrack
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Ray Conniff
Soundtrack
1966Peter Furler, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[â ]
Peter Andrew Furler is an Australian musician, songwriter, producer and record executive, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of the Christian rock band Newsboys from 1986 to 2009.
1966John Taylor, American race car driver (born 1933)[â ]
John Malcolm Taylor was a racing driver from England. He participated in five World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, and also participated in several non-championship Formula One races. His Formula One debut was on 11 July 1964, at the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch driving the Formula One/Formula Two hybrid CooperâFord T71/T73. He finished fourteenth, 24 laps down, after an extended pitâstop due to a gearbox problem. Taylor did not compete in the Formula One World Championship in 1965, but continued to drive in nonâchampionship races. He returned to Grand Prix racing in 1966, driving a two-litre BrabhamâBRM for privateer David Bridges. His first race that season was the French Grand Prix at Reims, where he scored his one championship point. There followed eighth places at both the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch and the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
1966The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".[â ]
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew. It acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[â ]