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7 Cabinet mins resign; charge Nguyen Cao Ky has done little to resolve problem of regionalism, that Govt heads toward police state; 4 other mins reptdly join dissidents
Dies; was over 80; por; illus
NYS Appellate Div, 3-2, holds Conservative party proposition must remain on ballot; ct, in separate ruling, upholds validity of party's initial petition to get on ballot; Sen com hearings continue; Javits testifies; reads Kennedy statement; holds bd will raise stature of ptl; says loss would hurt cause of liberalism; Police Fraternal Order pres Harrington and ex-Comr Murphy assail bd; illus
dept chaplains tell families of deaths
Supt Wille says Chase Manhattan Bank, 1st Natl City Bank and Bank of Amer have 'dishonored' his demand that they turn over Lebanese Intra Bank deposits they hold
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 19, 1966, covering October 19, 1966.
The Supremes
The Beatles
Soundtrack
The Mamas & The Papas
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966Jon Favreau, American actor, director, and screenwriter[†]
Jonathan Kolia Favreau is an American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, Favreau has appeared in films such as Rudy (1993), PCU (1994), Swingers (1996), Very Bad Things (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Replacements (2000), Daredevil (2003), The Break-Up (2006), Four Christmases (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), I Love You, Man (2009), People Like Us (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Chef (2014).
1966Dimitris Lyacos, Greek poet and playwright[†]
Dimitris Lyacos is a Greek writer. He is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy and the composite novel Until the Victim Becomes our Own. Lyacos's work is characterised by its genre-defying form and the avant-garde combination of themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology.
1966David Vann, American novelist and short story writer[†]
David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for The New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]