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Bootle orders Negroes reinstated; Vandiver to help preserve peace; Legis subcom queries univ officials, others on not; FBI probe on
Sec-designate Ribicoff favors aid but would have funds distributed by state agencies
Apptmt as Atty Gen unanimously approved by Sen com; hearing largely devoted to praise of him despite forecasts of severe questioning; he says he sold corp stock to conform to conflict-of-interest laws and now owns only govt bonds and cash; says he is beneficiary of 3 irrevocable trusts; illus
exiles, Miami, rept sabotage and resistance to Castro growing; charge repts on invasion bases training exiles hinder rebels in Cuba; armed rebel groups illus; suspicion that CIA backs Dem Revolutionary Front alleged training of rebels in Guatemala discussed; de Varona denies invasion is planned
Swan-Finch Oil Corp: US to try to extradite L M Birrell from Brazil for trial on '59 charges under new extradition treaty; Birrell comments; says pending Brazilian charges of fraudulent entry may bar extradition
1961Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (died 1996)[†]
Robert Edwin Hall was a New Zealand mountaineer. He was the head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition during which he, a fellow guide, and two clients died. A best-selling account of the expedition was given in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air and the expedition was dramatised in the 2015 film Everest. At the time of his death, Hall had just completed his fifth ascent to the summit of Everest, more at that time than any other non-Sherpa mountaineer.
1961Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (born 1888)[†]
William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Sea Wolf (1941), Going My Way (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944) and The Quiet Man (1952). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same performance. In 2020, he was listed at number 11 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]