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Greenwich Village cafe owners queried on pay-offs to police; Comr Kaplan subpoenas coffee houses financial records at Mayor Wagner request; 2d coffee house operator tells Grumet of paying police; Murphy and Grumet to continue separate probes
Atty Gen Kennedy offers program to combat organized crime and racketeering, news conf; proposals include 5 bills requested by ex-Atty Gen Rogers; 1 of 3 new bills would bar interstate travel to advance illegal activities including gambling, drugs, liquor and prostitution
London diplomats believe USSR and Communist China want cease-fire to begin same day as conf, fear West will lose interest in conf once cease-fire is proclaimed
liberal Repub Sens meet at Sen Aiken call in effort to change image of party created by Dirksen and Halleck in their wkly filmed press confs giving Repub position on Adm programs; hold they give old-fashioned, pol-as-usual, conservative image that might harm party
5,000-6,000 exiles reptdly have been training for 9 mos in Fla, Louisiana and Guatemala as fighting force of Revolutionary Council; recruiting now discontinued; forces reptd ready; linked with infiltrations into Cuba; factions and leaders in Council discussed; operations of Castro agents in US discussed; Cuba-US anti-Castro courier traffic described
1961Thurl Bailey, American basketball player and actor[†]
Thurl Lee Bailey Sr. is an American former professional basketball player whose National Basketball Association (NBA) career spanned from 1983 to 1999 with the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Bailey has been a broadcast analyst for the Utah Jazz and the University of Utah— in addition to work as an inspirational speaker, singer, songwriter, and film actor. Bailey garnered the nickname "Big T" during his basketball career.
1961Pascal Olmeta, French footballer[†]
Pascal Olmeta is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Marseille and Lyon in the 1990s.
1961Brigitte van der Burg, Tanzanian-Dutch geographer and politician[†]
Brigitte Ingrid van der Burg is a Dutch politician. As a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy she was an MP between 30 November 2006 and 23 March 2017. She focused on matters of the Dutch Royal House, local government finance, youth policy, organization of the Dutch government, consultancy and Kingdom relations.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]