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LAUREL, Md., Dec. 17-- Knightly Manner terminated his racing career with proper panache today. Mrs. Henry Obre's 5-year-old campaigner won the transformed Laurel Turf Cup, which arbitrary as it may seem, was contested on the main dirt course, in recordbreaking time. He covered the 1 3/8 miles in 2:20 2/5, as against the previous mark of 2:21.
Vietcong and N Vietnamese defections and desertions in '66 reptdly topped those of S Vietnamese for 1st time; growing number of experienced personnel among deserters; Vietcong mil capability and pol structure show no sign of collapse despite setbacks; trend does show gradual erosion of popular backing for Vietcong
Fordham U to urge students at planned Lincoln Center, NYC, campus to study deeply their own or another religion
2,000-unit condominium community for adults, Heritage Village, being built, Southbury; illus; floor plan
UN Assembly Pol Com unanimously approves pact for peaceful uses of outer space; Amb Goldberg hails pact as major step to cut risks of world destruction; lauds role of Com on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space chmn Waldheim (Austria) and legal subcom chmn Lachs (Poland); stresses importance of article making launching states responsible for damage caused by objects they launch; N T Fedorenko (USSR) views pact as result of USSR efforts to solve legal problems
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 14, 1966, covering December 18, 1966.
The Monkees
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
The Supremes
Simon & Garfunkel
1966Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian footballer and sportscaster[†]
Gianluca Pagliuca is an Italian football coach and former professional goalkeeper.
1966Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.[†]
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about 9 times that of Earth. It has an eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive. Even though Saturn is almost as big as Jupiter, Saturn has less than a third its mass. Saturn orbits the Sun at a distance of 9.59 AU (1,434 million km), with an orbital period of 29.45 years.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]