Lindsay seen planning drastic measures to open sts for cleaning by mech brooms

LINDSAY TO RAISE FINES FOR PARKING TO CUT CONGESTION; $10 Increase Is Considered  More Efficient Ticketing Process Also Planned LINDSAY TO RAISE FINES FOR PARKING

Pope hopes Xmas 'miracle of goodwill' will transform truce into peace, televised Xmas message; illus

POPE VOICES HOPE TRUCE WILL LEAD TO VIETNAM PEACE; Christmas Message Looks to a 'Miracle of Goodwill' as the Key to New Effort APPEALS TO BOTH SIDES Pontiff Says Winning a True Accord Demands 'Order Between God and Man' POPE VOICES HOPE FOR PEACE EFFORT

9 firemen from same div that lost 12 in Oct blaze rescued from burning bldg

9 FIREMEN SAVED IN 6TH AVE. BLAZE; Trapped When Ceiling Falls in Midtown Tunnels Dug in Debris by Rescuers 9 Firemen Saved in Sixth Ave. Blaze

USSR Premier Kosygin pledges 200,000 tons of wheat worth $13-million, lr to Gandhi; Govt temporarily cuts statutory grain ration to send more grain to Bihar; enforcement in states having surplus unlikely

200,000 Tons From Moscow; SOVIET PROVIDING WAEAT FOR INDIA

Resigns; is asked to form new Govt; illus

U.S. Giving Jordan More Arms To Bolster Her Against Israel; U.S. Sending Additional Arms to Bolster Jordan

Harper & Row says outlook is good for out-of-ct settlement; Look exec says serialization will be 60,000 words, not 80,000 as reptd; Stern, W Ger magazine, to pay Look $72,500 for Ger-language rights to serialization; refuses to make changes; under accord with Mrs Kennedy, Look must control material serialized elsewhere; Donnelly & Sons say Look printing is not delayed

Harper Hopeful of Accord To Publish Kennedy Book; HARPER HOPEFUL OF BOOK ACCORD

Med care services continue spectacular rise in BLS Consumer Price Index; at 131.3 Nov, compared with over-all index of 114.6

DIP IN FOOD PRICES HOLDS COST RISE TO 6-MONTH LOW; November Increase of 0.1% Led by Medical Charges, the Highest Category FACTORY WAGES GO UP Those in Meat Packing and Aerospace Industries Keep Pace With Index Advance Food Price Dip Holds Cost Rise To Lowest Level in Six Months

US plans to send 900,000 tons of wheat and sorghum as interim emergency shipment, giving Johnson time to consult Cong on long-range aid program; denies link to USSR gift; cites Cong team rept urging move; aid to arrive late Feb and early Mar

900,000 Tons From U.S.; U.S. to Send India Emergency Grain

Chained Gate Is No Obstacle to Foes of Hospital Closing in the Bronx

Supt Donovan, at NY Times request, makes available reading scores for all ps and jr hss in city, 1st time such data have been released by NYC system

Fifth of City Pupils Found 2 Years Behind in Reading; Tests Show the Majority Are Not Up to Children in Same Grades Elsewhere  Schools Cite Aid to Many Reading Tests Show Fifth of City's Pupils Lagging by 2 Years

Hint of a Commando Raid In North Seen in Air Clash; COMMANDO RAID ON NORTH HINTED

Superior Ct to hear, under Costa Rican law, $2.5-million suit against US Steel Internatl brought by survivors of 12 workers killed in Dec '62 San Jose, CR, bridge accident; NJ chosen as trial site because US Steel, parent co, had corp hq there at time of accident; Costa Rican judge to instruct ct and jury, if necessary

COSTA RICAN LAW TO RULE IN JERSEY; Suits Over Bridge Collapse Involve Two Countries COSTA RICAN LAW TO RULE IN JERSEY

20 neighborhood residents break lock on hosp gate but are foiled in attempt to reopen emergency room; illus; Izquierdo has Dr H Barnett along as emergency dr; CORE former Bronx chmn H Callender says he is patient; Kennedy issues statement suggesting city take over hosp pending completion of Lincoln Hosp; Lindsay aide says Mayor hopes hosp operation can continue

ANGRY BRONXITES REOPEN HOSPITAL; St. Francis Emergency Gate Is Smashed Open by 20  2 Surgeons Head Group 20 Angry Bronxites Reopen Hospital

US diplomats hopeful of better relations though Govt-controlled radio and press continue attacks on US despite Toure's assurance they would stop; US aid program has virtually ended

Americans in Guinea Hopeful of Better Relations

Duesseldorf record co issues documentary collection of Nazi bulletins, music and speeches

'Glories' of Past Recreated On New German Records

Kosygin urges withdrawal of all foreign troops and dismantling of all foreign bases; says rights of Turkish and Greek natl communities should be observed

KOSYGIN FOR RECALL OF TROOPS ON CYPRUS

Resigns as CD Dir to become Radio Free Eur vp

Civil Defense Chief Quits Post to Join Radio Free Europe

BASILIA, Dec. 22--Congress approved early today in a first reading the controversial new Constitution submitted by President Humberto Castelo Branco.  

New Brazilian Constitution Passes First Voting Hurdle

USSR press agency Tass, reptg on recently found 19th century Russian notebook on Alaska, notes that Alaska and Aleutians were sold to US for 'next to nothing,'

Russians Now Regret Selling Alaska to U.S.

Daughter Carolyn sues bro-in-law, H C Stuart, for using Skelly's estate to own advantage

Former Air Secretary Sued

US experts predict bumper food crops, Parana, Sao Paulo and Goiaz; prices dropping

BUMPER FOOD CROPS EXPECTED IN BRAZIL

Marshal Moskalenko named Deputy Defense Min; some see 1st step in retiring ailing Malinovsky

Soviet Appoints Defense Aide

Macao gov reptdly yielded to Communist Chinese 72-hr ultimatum to ban all Chinese Nationalist activities

MACAO SAID TO YIELD TO CHINA ULTIMATUM

12 creditor nations ease repayment terms on part of external debt incurred by Nkrumah regime

Ghana's Creditors Allow Extension on Repayments

number of foreign press reprs and Rhodesia Herald barred from Prime Min Smith news conf

Smith Holds U.N. Move Made Rhodesia Republic; Contends Sanctions Vote Cut Tie to Commonwealth  Will Appeal to People

Badi Assad is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitarist in the jazz and worldbeat genres.

December 23, 1966

Headlines from December 23, 1966

LINDSAY TO RAISE FINES FOR PARKING TO CUT CONGESTION; $10 Increase Is Considered More Efficient Ticketing Process Also Planned LINDSAY TO RAISE FINES FOR PARKING

POPE VOICES HOPE TRUCE WILL LEAD TO VIETNAM PEACE; Christmas Message Looks to a 'Miracle of Goodwill' as the Key to New Effort APPEALS TO BOTH SIDES Pontiff Says Winning a True Accord Demands 'Order Between God and Man' POPE VOICES HOPE FOR PEACE EFFORT

9 FIREMEN SAVED IN 6TH AVE. BLAZE; Trapped When Ceiling Falls in Midtown Tunnels Dug in Debris by Rescuers 9 Firemen Saved in Sixth Ave. Blaze

200,000 Tons From Moscow; SOVIET PROVIDING WAEAT FOR INDIA

U.S. Giving Jordan More Arms To Bolster Her Against Israel; U.S. Sending Additional Arms to Bolster Jordan

Billboard 200

The Monkees

Doctor Zhivago

SRO

Parsley; Sage; Rosemary And Thyme

The Sound Of Music

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 23, 1966