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Mrs R Unger held for disorderly conduct after sitting on car 2 1/2 hrs to protest police attempts to tow it away; illus
Harlem parents and community group chmn D Spencer threatens new boycott of IS 201 after rejecting Educ Bd proposal to set up 'advisory' panel of local delegates and teachers to work with school, news conf; action follows bd's rejection of Prof Clark proposed community officials-parents-univ reprs panel to operate school; bd pres Garrison says state Educ Dept ruled Clark plan invalid
Lima and Callao; 55 killed, hundreds hurt; damage extensive
NYS Sen com hearings on bd open, NYC; Sens Wilson and Paterson move for adjournment rejected; Cassese testifies; charges bd will serve Communists; Neier (ACLU) suggests PBA seeks to cripple Investigation Dept and thus immunize police from graft and corruption probes; says it recd 871 charges against police, Jan-Aug; Prof Kephart, ex-member of Phila police rev bd, holds bd will lower dept morale; Police Advisory Bd exec sec Farmer defends bd; says it acts as safety valve
Lebanese pound price falls as result of Intra Bank crisis
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 12, 1966, covering October 18, 1966.
The Beatles
Soundtrack
Ray Conniff
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Supremes
1966Dave Price, American journalist and game show host[†]
David M. Price is an American journalist and weather forecaster who is currently working for WNBC-TV in New York as a weekday afternoon weatherman.
1966Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (born 1878)[†]
Elizabeth Arden, also known as Elizabeth N. Graham, was a Canadian-American businesswoman who founded what is now Elizabeth Arden, Inc., and built a cosmetics empire in the United States.
1966S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (born 1867)[†]
Sebastian Spering Kresge was an American businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores: the S. S. Kresge Company, one of the 20th century's largest discount retail organizations, and the Kresge-Newark traditional department store chain. The discounter was renamed the Kmart Corporation in 1977.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]