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USSR blames 'US hirelings' for invasion; Izvestia assails 'aggression' as planned by 'US imperialists'; cartoon; Khrushchev confs with Min Gromyko, Sochi; speculation
US Sup Ct, 7-1, kills NLRB requirement that labor and mgt refund to employes all union dues collected under agreement found to constitute illegal closed shop, Carpenters Local 60 case
ct denies plea for hearing on Eichmann abduction; Housner, in opening statement, rejects defense contention that Eichmann merely obeyed orders; revs Eichmann role in mass deportation of Jews from Ger and Austria and in transporting Jews to concentration camps
News confs
air-supported rebel attack on swampy coast of Cochinos Bay in S Las Villas Prov confirmed; Castro announces resistance, charges US organized attack and declares natl alert; reptdly escapes injury in air raid; Revolutionary Council repts militia defecting; maps
1961Jane Leeves, English actress and dancer[†]
Jane Elizabeth Leeves is an English actress, best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the NBC sitcom Frasier (1993–2004), for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 50th Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film at the 52nd Golden Globe Awards. She also played Joy Scroggs on TV Land's sitcom Hot in Cleveland.
1961John Podhoretz, American journalist and author[†]
John Mordecai Podhoretz is an American writer. He is the editor of Commentary magazine, a columnist for the New York Post, the author of several books on politics, and a former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan and worked in the administration of George H. W. Bush.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]