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OPM pub tabulation of expenditures proposed or authorized to date including $7,000,000,000 of lend-lease fund bill
Hitler entertains visitors at pact signing
Cvetkovitch Govt reptd falling under pub anger
State troopers smash picket lines; picketing ordered continued; violence; illus; Riffe wires Gov James protesting trooper intervention; James asks Natl Defense Mediation Bd intervention
S on Brit war aims and post-war order, Pilgrims of the U S, N Y C; text; por with wife
1941Richard Dawkins, Kenyan-English ethologist, biologist, and academic[†]
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. His book The Selfish Gene (1976) popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and coined the word meme. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards.
1941Lella Lombardi, Italian racing driver (died 1992)[†]
Maria Grazia "Lella" Lombardi was an Italian racing driver who participated in 17 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix from 1974 to 1976. Lombardi was the second female driver to qualify for Formula One, after Maria Teresa de Filippis, and is the only female driver who scored points in Formula One, having won half a point in the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix. Lombardi was also the first woman to qualify and compete in the Race of Champions at Brands Hatch, and raced in sports cars. She won the 1979 6 Hours of Pergusa, the 1979 6 Hours of Vallelunga and the 1981 6 Hours of Mugello, and finished 2nd in her class at the 1976 24 Hours of Le Mans.