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Pres Kennedys, OAS Council; illus
repts 104,500 starts, Mar, 8% above Feb and 3d consecutive monthly increase
Norton, revg Harvard study, says area growth to '85 will require $42 billion in pub investment to provide basic facilities, s, NYC; sees sum supplemented by $200 billion in private investment; stresses such outlays require careful planning and should not be left to 1,400 local govt units; says Assn is working on new study based on Harvard rept; needed capital outlays for various facilities noted
6 1/2 million lbs of cane reptd burned by saboteurs; other incidents
Broadway, 1548: Silver Dollar Bar and Restaurant; NYC makes $45,000 out-of-ct settlement in '55 fire started when fire inspector applied match to flammable window display
1961Neil Carmichael, English academic and politician[†]
William Neil Carmichael is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stroud from 2010 until 2017. In April 2019, he announced he had left the Conservative Party; he subsequently joined Change UK for which he was an unsuccessful candidate in the East of England constituency at the 2019 European Parliament election. In September 2019, Carmichael joined the Liberal Democrats but left after one year.
1961Carol W. Greider, American molecular biologist[†]
Carolyn Widney Greider is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. She is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
1961Dawn Wright, American geographer and oceanographer[†]
Dawn Jeannine Wright is an American geographer and oceanographer. She is a leading authority in the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to the field of ocean and coastal science and played a key role in creating the first GIS data model for the oceans. Wright is Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri). She has also been a professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University since 1995 and is a former Oregon Professor of the Year as named by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Wright was the first Black female to dive to the ocean floor in the deep submersible ALVIN. On July 12, 2022, she became the first and only Black person to dive to Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth, and to successfully operate a side scan sonar at full-ocean depth.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]