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Sanitation Comr Kearing ana Citizens Com for a Cleaner NY set demonstration program for 3 Central Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant and E Bronx areas to prove 'we can lick dirt'; asks other agencies aid
P Lisagor, in Chicago Daily News, repts Mrs Kennedy dismayed that Manchester used some highly personal material, obtained in taped ints with her, in his book The Death of a President; publisher Harper & Row repts publication date delayed for mo, declines to discuss revisions; Lisagor says Kennedy family is engaged in 'strange and bitter struggle' to have material deleted; Look publisher Cowles says he has heard family is not happy but he is not aware of pressures; says serialization will start as scheduled in Jan; ms read for R F Kennedy by his former aides E O Guthman and J Siegenthaler,who made some suggestions to Harper & Row
Boom in equipment-leasing indus, spurred in part by tight money conditions, discussed
Ex-mental patient G D Williams fatally shoots D J Norton and C L Swan in Bryant Pk, terrorizes crowds, before he is critically wounded by ptl; illus; map
B-52s bomb guerrilla camp, Phuoclong; support ground action in Boiloi woods
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 7, 1966, covering December 11, 1966.
The Monkees
Soundtrack
The Supremes
Soundtrack
The Mamas & The Papas
1966Gary Dourdan, American actor[â ]
Gary Dourdan is an American actor. He is known for portraying Warrick Brown on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Shazza Zulu on the television series A Different World and Mickey Monroe in crime thriller Righteous Villains.
1966Erik HonorĂ©, Norwegian guitarist and producer[â ]
Erik Honoré is a Norwegian writer, musician, record producer and sound engineer. As a musician, he has collaborated with Jan Bang, David Sylvian, Brian Eno/Peter Schwalm, Jon Hassell, Nils Petter MolvÊr, Arve Henriksen, Sidsel Endresen, Unni Wilhelmsen, Eivind Aarset, Claudia Scott, Anne Grete Preus, Savoy and produced all the albums from Velvet Belly.
1966Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (died 2002)[â ]
Lars Olof Göran Kropp was a Swedish mountaineer, the first Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support on 23 May 1996, after traveling there from Sweden by bicycle and foot.
1966Leon Lai, Hong Kong singer and actor[â ]
Leon Lai Ming SBS BBS MH, is a Hong Kong actor, singer, film director, and businessman. He is one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Hong Kong pop music. He uses his Chinese name "Lai Ming" or "Li Ming", which literally means "dawn".
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[â ]