President Johnson Top Newsmaker Of The Year
Lyndon B Johnson named AP top newsmaker of 1966 arts and politics. The piece notes Johnson’s Great Society gains and stalled civil rights bills, his Asia trip, medical procedures, and personal milestones. Other honorees include De Gaulle, DeBakey, Nader, Meany, Pike, Koufax, Capote, and Gandhi.
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President Johnson
Mary. Campbell
AP Newsfeatures
Lyndon B-Johnson
Associated Press
Cabinet Department
Transportation
Taft- Hartley
LBJ
Johnson
Asia
Camp Ranh Bay
South Vietnam
Luci
Patrick J. Nugent Jr
Ange
Charles de Gaulle
France
Europe
NATO
U. S
Russia
De-Gaulle
Germany
Michael E. de Bakey
Ralph Nader
George Meany
James A. Pike
Sandy Koufax
Batman
Truman Capote
Indira—Gandhi
Michael E. DeBakey
Marcel DeRudder
Methodist Hospital
Houston
DeRudder
Attorney Nader
General Motors
Vietnam War tops AP list of 1966 year’s stories
AP annual roundup notes the Vietnam War as the top story of 1966 with major operations Masher Hastings Attleboro and other campaigns. It cites McNamara on progress, peace talks calls by Rusk and Johnson, US bombing of oil depots near Hanoi, the Whitman library mass shooting, 1966 elections, space feats, race riots, and economic shifts shaping the year.
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Mary Campbell
Texas
Tion el Paso
Hastings
Sgt. Howard
Hill
Attleboro
Robert McNamara
Arthur Goldberg
United Nations
U.S
V‘ienam
North Vietnam
Dean Rusk
Hanoi
Haiphong
China
Vietnam
Coast Guard
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Vietnam
Gemini Closes Out Big Year In Space
The 1966 year in space included the Gemini 12 splashdown by Lovell and Aldrin, NASA milestones with Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter missions, and early Apollo plans. Saturn 1 tests, X-15 research, and large rocket motor developments supported the lunar landing program and future manned flights.
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James A.lovell Jr
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Atlantic Ocean
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Iti
U.S
Moon
Cape Kennedy
Surveyor
Itty
Lunar
Lunar Orbiter J
Earth
Copernicus
Ted i
Iso
Nasas
Argentina
Federal Republic of Germany
Brazil
Canada
India
Norway
Pakistan
Spain
Greece
France
Soviet Union
Morgan County joins boys in record enlistments 1966
Local Selective Service officials praise Morgan County youths for high voluntary enlistments in 1966. 93 inducted into regular Army by Dec 15, 175 enlisted. total Army and Air Force entrants reach 415. Nation space and science efforts also noted with NASA vehicle tests and international rocket work.
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Morgan County
Selective Servicé
Dean Boyd
Air Force
Selective Service
Regular Army
Army
Navy
Morgan Courts
Alabama farm income hits record in 1966 despite weather
Alabama's 1966 gross farm income is estimated at 712 million dollars, a record and about 16 million above 1965. Cotton and peanuts, the two largest row crops, fall short, while poultry beef cattle and soybeans rise. Cotton yields drop to 393 pounds per acre with harvested area down from 809000 to 566000 acres.
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Alabama
Fred Robertson
Auburn University
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