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It's moving day, or soon will be, for New York's billion-dollar banks. Two moves are under way and another is scheduled to begin on May 1. Within two years, all but one of these eight largest banks in the city expect to be in new locations.
US launches 78-lb Explorer X satellite designed to survey magnetic fields as far as 120,000 mi in space to aid in charting safe travel paths; round trip seen taking 4 1/2 days; satellite working well; will transmit data for about 55 hrs, life of chem battries
Thousands of products -- ranging from television sets to missile components -- eventually may be much smaller, more reliable and cheaper as a result of molecular electronics. This latest development in micro-miniaturization is just emerging from the laboratory into the market place.
1961William Hague, English historian and politician, First Secretary of State[†]
William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond is a British politician and life peer who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001 and Deputy Leader from 2005 to 2010. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) in North Yorkshire from 1989 to 2015. He was in the Cameron government as First Secretary of State from 2010 to 2015, Foreign Secretary from 2010 to 2014, and Leader of the House of Commons from 2014 to 2015. He has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since February 2025.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]