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antipoverty authorization bill approved by HR stresses job projects for older unemployed
Fedorenko and Goldberg hold out promise for accord on nonproliferation treaty, UN Assembly com; both caution against over-optimism; Fedorenko again charges W Ger plots to get nuclear arms; Ger spokesman denies it; Goldberg appeals for cooperation of nonnuclear states, says US will study security assurance if they accept treaty; com debate is on USSR resolution asking restraint from actions hampering treaty; resolution co-sponsored by US, GB and 8 other nations
complaints recd by bd show most come from middle-income areas rather than from poor areas; of 1st 307, 140 were filed by whites, 113 by Negroes, 38 by Hispanic persons, 16 listed as unknown; other data; Dr K B Clark, Paterson comment
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 19, 1966, covering October 21, 1966.
The Supremes
The Beatles
Soundtrack
The Mamas & The Papas
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966Phillip Price, Welsh golfer[†]
John Phillip Price is a Welsh professional golfer who plays on the European Senior Tour. He won three European Tour events between 1994 and 2003 and played in the 2002 Ryder Cup.
1966Igor Prins, Estonian footballer and manager[†]
Igor Prins is an Estonian football manager and former professional player.
1966Arne Sandstø, Norwegian footballer and manager[†]
Arne Sandstø is a Norwegian football manager and former player who is head coach at Värnamo.
1966A colliery spoil tip slips onto houses and a school in the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were schoolchildren.[†]
The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, and overlaid a natural spring. Heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry, killing 116 children and 28 adults as it engulfed Pantglas Junior School and a row of houses. The tip was the responsibility of the National Coal Board (NCB), and the subsequent inquiry placed the blame for the disaster on the organisation and nine named employees.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]