Top News Headlines This Week:
Apr 6 - Mihir Sen swims the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India   Apr 7 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)   Apr 8 - Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party   Apr 8 - OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched   Apr 8 - AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner   Apr 9 - Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris  
Top Songs for 1966
We Can Work It Out by Beatles     The Ballad of the Green Berets by S/Sgt. Barry Sadler    
Monday, Monday by The Mama's & the Papa's     Cherish by Association    
Winchester Cathedral by New Vaudeville Band     I'm a Believer by Monkees    
You Can't Hurry Love by Supremes     Soul and Inspiration by Righteous Brothers    
Summer In the City by Lovin' Spoonful     Wild Thing by Troggs    
1966 Prices US President
Bread:  $0.22/loaf Lyndon B. Johnson
Milk:  $1.11/gal US Vice President
Eggs:  $1.05/doz Hubert H. Humphrey
Car:  $2,410 Academy Award Winners
Gas:  $0.32/gal
Best Picture:A Man For All Seasons
 Directed By F.zimmerman
Best Actor:Paul Scofield
 in A Man For All Seasons
Best Actress:Elizabeth Taylor
 in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
House:  $23,300
Stamp:  $0.05/ea
Avg Income:  $8,395/yr
Min Wage:  $1.25/hr
DOW Avg:    786
People born on April 6
1944 - Michelle Phillips, rocker (Mamas & The Papas)
1892 - Lowell Thomas Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure)
1937 - Merle Haggard Bakersfield Calif, country singer (Death Valley Days)
1952 - Marilu Henner Chicago, actress (Taxi, Man Who Loved Women)
On TV in 1966
Hogan's Heroes    Get Smart    Batman   
Mission: Impossible    Lost in Space    The Avengers   
The Monkees    Star Trek    Green Acres   
I Dream of Jeannie   
Hot New Toys in 1966
Parker Brothers' Ouija Board    Incredible Edibles    Get Smart Pen Radio   
Twister    Hot Wheels    Mystery Date   
Green Hornet Walkie Talkie    Captain Action    Battery Operated Batmobile   
Top Books in 1966
The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates     The Magus by John Fowles    
The Contours of American History by William Appleman Williams     Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys    
Yo, Juan de Pareja (I, Juan de Pareja) by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino    
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