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Fiscal '67 war costs now put at $20-billion, twice Jan estimate; raise US defense outlays to $67-billion
Wilson leaves London for talks with Smith; accompanied by Bowden and Jones; Smith leaves Salisbury aboard RAF jet with Gov Gibbs, Chief Justice Beadle, Min Howman and Sir M James
Thant gratified by proposed holiday cease-fires; seen optimistic about peace talks
Pros Johnson announces plans for reorgn of Fed Prisons Bur in '67 to streamline adm of new rehabilitation programs; new Community Services Div set to adm work-release program and pre-release guidance centers estab under '65 Prisoner Rehabilitation Act; Johnson says fewer than 5% of 1,400 Fed inmates in '65 work-release program were ousted from it
Defense Dept repts Repub Aviation and Munich co have been chosen by US and W Ger to begin preliminary engineering studies for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 30, 1966, covering December 1, 1966.
The Monkees
Soundtrack
The Supremes
The Mamas & The Papas
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Andrew Ralph Adamson is a New Zealand film director, producer, screenwriter and animator. He is best known for directing the DreamWorks animated film Shrek (2001), which is based on the children's picture book of the same name by American author William Steig and won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 74th Academy Awards ceremony, and directing and co-writing Shrek 2 (2004), which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He also directed and co-wrote the first two live-action film adaptations of C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia novels: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and Prince Caspian (2008).
1966Katherine LaNasa, American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer[†]
Katherine LaNasa is an American actress. She starred in films Jayne Mansfield's Car, The Campaign, and The Frozen Ground. On television, LaNasa has had a leading roles in the sitcom Three Sisters (2001–02), the legal drama Truth Be Told (2019–23), the musical series Katy Keene (2020), and the medical drama The Pitt (2025–), appeared in recurring roles on Judging Amy, Two and a Half Men, Big Love, and Longmire, and starred in the short-lived dramas Love Monkey (2006), Deception (2013), Satisfaction (2014–15) and Imposters (2017–18).
1966Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player and coach[†]
Larry Kenneth Robert Walker is a Canadian former professional baseball right fielder. During his 17-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played with the Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, and St. Louis Cardinals. In 1997, he became the only player in major league history to register both a .700 slugging percentage (SLG) and 30 stolen bases in the same season, on his way to winning the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player Award (MVP). The first player in more than 60 years to record a batting average of .360 in three consecutive seasons from 1997 to 1999, Walker also won three NL batting championships. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2007, and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in the Class of 2009, and was named the 13th-greatest sporting figure from Canada by Sports Illustrated in 1999. In 2020, Walker was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]