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Accepts Yale U Corp inv for joint study that could lead to student-faculty exchs and joint hiring policies and possible relocation of Vassar in New Haven; pres Simpson comments
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 The White House announced today that David E. Lilienthal, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, would lead a nongovernmental American team to work with Vietnamese experts on long-range planning for the Vietnamese economy.
Census Bur repts housing starts, Nov, 19% over Oct to 1-million annual rate seasonally adjusted; repts slight rise in bldg permits to 717,000 annual rate; graph of housing starts, Nov '65-Nov '66
press confs, City Hall
Hung Chi (Pub) ed, carried in 3 installments, indicates Mao feels it may be impossible to control regular party orgn without continuing help from mass orgns like Red Guards, text transmitted by Hsinhua; defends Mao and Min Lin Piao concept of 'extensive democracy'; suggests it is necessary to institute system of gen elections like that of 1871 Paris Commune; speculation; Western analysts believe Chief of State Liu Shao-chi and party's Sec Gen Teng Hsiao-ping tried to restrain Guards movement, protect party orgn from mass attack
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 14, 1966, covering December 17, 1966.
The Monkees
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
The Supremes
Simon & Garfunkel
1966Tracy Byrd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Tracy Lynn Byrd is an American country music artist. Signed to MCA Nashville Records in 1992, Byrd broke through on the country music scene that year with his 1993 single "Holdin' Heaven", which reached Number One on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks. Although he did not land a second Number One until 2002's "Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo", Byrd has charted more than thirty hit singles in his career, including eleven additional Top Ten hits. He has also released ten studio albums and two greatest-hits albums, with four gold certifications and one double-platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. He was the on-air spokesman for the TNN Outdoors block from 1998 to 2000.
1966Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician, 23rd Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs[†]
Kristiina Ojuland is an Estonian politician. She was the Foreign Minister of Estonia from 2002 through 2005. She was a member of the Estonian Reform Party from 1995 till 5 June 2013 and from 2009 to 2014 she served as one of the six Estonian MEPs in the European Parliament. She was expelled from the Reform Party because of alleged vote rigging on 5 June 2013. She later founded the Party of People's Unity, which failed to gain any seats in the 2015 and 2019 parliamentary election.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]