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RC and nonpub school spokesmen at Repub hearing for at-large conv delegates and at hearing of temporary state com preparing for conv back repeal of sec barring aid; NY ACLU, PEA and State Educ Conf Bd opposed
Repr Weltner withdraws from Cong race rather than abide by Dem loyalty oath that would require him to bock Maddox; syas he 'cannot compromise with hate'; decision compounds shock that pervades Dem liberal and moderate wing; he says he will not vote for Callaway and will write in Gov candidate; oath requires Dem primary candidates to pledge to back nominees in gen election; carries no penalties for violation; Sen Johnson, who signed it, says he will not back Maddox and weighs taking Weltner's place; Weltner holds Maddox has good chance of winning because he has taken Callaway's 'big issue--race issue' away from him; bars write-in drive for self; Cong stunned by decision; members comment
Pan Amer sets talks with Aeroflot on US-USSR reciprocal service
Stock prices tumbled yesterday in one of the sharpest setback's of the year.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 28, 1966, covering October 4, 1966.
The Beatles
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Ray Conniff
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Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.[†]
Basutoland was a British Crown colony that existed from 1884 to 1966 in present-day Lesotho, bordered with the Cape Colony, Natal Colony and Orange River Colony until 1910 and completely surrounded by South Africa from 1910. Though the Basotho and their territory had been under British control starting in 1868, the rule by Cape Colony was unpopular and unable to control the territory. As a result, Basutoland was brought under direct authority of Queen Victoria, via the High Commissioner, and run by an Executive Council presided over by a series of British Resident Commissioners.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]