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Sports

NBA:Boston Celtics vs. LA Lakers Series: 4-3

NCAA Football: Notre Dame & Michigan Staterecord: 9-0-1 & 9-0-1Heisman Trophy:Steve Spurrier,florida, QB points: 1,679 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens vs.Detroit Red Wings Score: 4-2
US Open Golf:Billy Casper
Score: 278 Course: Olympic CC Location: San FranciscoWorld Cup: England vs.West Germany
Series: 4-2

World Series: Baltimore Orioles
vs.
LA Dodgers
Series: 4-0

Popular Music of 1966

1."Ballad of the Green Berets"- SSgt Barry Sadler
2."Cherish" ... The Associations
3."Yo're My Soul and Inspiration" ... The Righteous Brothers
4."Reach Out I'll Be There" ... Lou Christie
5."96 Tears" ... ? & the Mysterians

6."Last Train to Clarksville'" ... Thh Four Tops
7."Monday Monday" ...The Mamas & the Papas"
8."You Can't Hurry Love'" ... The Supremes
9."Poor Side of Town" ...Johnny Rivers
10."California Dreamin" ... The Mamas & the Papas

Popular Movies

1. The Bible: In the Beginning...
2. Hawaii
3. .Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. The Sand Pebbles
5. A Man For All Seasons
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
7.Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
8. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
9. Grand Prix
10.Blowup

Grammy Awards

Record of the Year: "Strangers In the Night (Deluxe Edition) - Frank Sinatra"

"Michelle" ... John Lennon, Paul McCartney "Sinatra: A Man and His Music" ... Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra ... "Strangers in the Night" Edyie Gorme ... "If He Walked into My Life Today"

Academy Awards

Best Picture: "A Man for All Seasons"
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann ... "A Man for All Seasons"
Best Actor: Paul Scofield ... "A Man for All Seasons"
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor ...Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf""

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry

MULLIKEN, ROBERT S., U.S.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, b. 1896, d.
1986:

"for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic
structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"
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Literature

The prize was divided equally between:

AGNON, SHMUEL YOSEF, Israel, b. 1888, d. 1970:

"for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life
of the Jewish people"; and

SACHS, NELLY, Sweden, b. 1891 (in Germany), d. 1970:

"for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's
destiny with touching strength"
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Peace

The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
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Physiology or Medicine

The prize was divided equally between:

ROUS, PEYTON, U.S.A., Rockefeller University, New York, NY, b. 1879, d.
1970:

"for his discovery of tumor-inducing viruses"; and

HUGGINS, CHARLES BRENTON, U.S.A., Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, b. 1901, d. 1997:

"for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer"
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Physics

KASTLER, ALFRED, France, Ecole Normale Superieure, Universite de Paris, b.
1902, d. 1984:

"for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying hertzian
resonances in atoms"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama:Frank D. Gilory..."The Subject Was Roses"

Fiction:Katherine Anne Porter ... "Collected Stories"

"History:Perry Miller ... "Life of the Mind in America"

International Reporting:Peter Arnett ... "Associated Press"

National Reporting: Haynes Johnson ... "Washington (DC) Evening Star"

Public Service: "Boston Globe"

Most Popular Books

Fiction
1."Valley of the Dolls" ... Jacqueline Susann. Bernard Geis
2."The Adventurers" ... Harold Robbins. Trident Press
3."The Secret of Santa Vittoria" ... Robert Crichton. Simon & Schuster
4."Capable of Honor" ... Allen Drury. Doubleday
5."The Double Image" ... Helen MacInnes. Harcourt, Brace & World
6."The Fixer" ... Bernard Malamud. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
7."Tell No Man" ... Adela Rogers St. Johns. Doubleday
8."Tai-Pan" ... James Clavell. Atheneum Publishers
9."The Embezzler" ... Louis Auchincloss. Houghton Mifflin
10."All in the Family" ... Edwin O'Connor. Atlantic-Little, Brown
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Nonfiction
1."How to Avoid Probate" ... Norman F. Dacey. Crown
2."Human Sexual Response" ... William Howard Masters and
Virginia Eshelman Johnson. Little, Brown
3."In Cold Blood" ... Truman Capote. Random House
4."Games People Play" ... Eric Berne, M.D. Grove Press
5."A Thousand Days" ... Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Houghton Mifflin
6."Everything But Money" ... Sam Levenson. Simon & Schuster
7."The Random House Dictionary of the English Language" ... Random
House
8."Rush to Judgment" ... Mark Lane. Holt, Rinehart & Winston
9."The Last Battle" ... Cornelius Ryan. Simon & Schuster
10."Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints" ... Phyllis Diller.

Most Popular Television Shows

1. Bonanza (NBC)
2. The Red Skelton Hour (CBS)
3. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)
4. The Lucy Show (CBS)
5. The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS)
6. Green Acres (CBS)
7. Daktari (CBS)
8. Bewitched (ABC)
9. The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS)
10. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS)