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DETROIT, April 15 -- A preliminary phase of the Government's bus manufacturing antitrust suit against. General Motors Corporation ended in United States District Court here on Monday, almost five years after the suit was filed.
Kennedy Adm, in consultation with Allies, studies making US prime or sole custodian of nuclear weapons while increasing conventional capacity; Macmillan and Adenauer reptd warm to plan; de Gaulle seen key
Navy's newly designated varsity crew scored impressively in beating Columbia on the Harlem yesterday. The eight that had been promoted on Friday evening from junior varsity status defeated the Lions by two and a quarter lengths.
THE spring weather is about to bring the spring week-end traffic jams, which are always followed by the summer week-end traffic jams, and those on Long Island will be more noticeable this season for the fact that the Long Island Expressway now stands completed almost to the Village of Jericho.
THE ghost of Sigmund Freud, which has hovered over our literature, thought and even small talk for many years, has permeated the theatre, and now Henry Denker has attempted to conjure up the man himself in his provocative play, "A Far Country."
1961Jarbom Gamlin, Indian lawyer and politician, seventh Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (died 2014)[â ]
Jarbom Gamlin was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress political party in Arunachal Pradesh and briefly served as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.
1961Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic (born 1912)[â ]
Carl Iver Hovland was a psychologist working primarily at Yale University and for the US Army during World War II who studied attitude change and persuasion. He first reported the sleeper effect after studying the effects of the Frank Capra propaganda film Why We Fight on soldiers in the Army. In later studies on this subject, Hovland collaborated with Irving Janis who would later become famous for his theory of groupthink. Hovland also developed social judgment theory of attitude change. Carl Hovland thought that the ability of someone to resist persuasion by a certain group depended on your degree of belonging to the group.
1961In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a MarxistâLeninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.[â ]
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a MarxistâLeninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[â ]