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Reprs Celler, McCormack and Burke denounce Judge Wyzanski of Boston from HR floor during debate on judgeship bill; Wyzanski has no comment
Inspector Butler, 2 lts and 16 plainclothes men of 17th Div (Queens) shifted for laxity in enforcing laws; Bufler files for retirement; gambling arrests up sharply
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subcom unanimously approves it; Passman says Latin Amers might misunderstand any cut; Cuban crisis linked
pro-Castro youth patrols reptd helping police round up suspicious elements to prevent uprising; tight Govt control, mass arrests reptd; news curbed; Phillips reptd still free, but not allowed to send out news; some foreign newsmen held
1961Don Mattingly, American baseball player, coach, and manager[†]
Donald Arthur Mattingly is an American professional baseball coach, and former first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the bench coach for the Toronto Blue Jays of MLB. Nicknamed "the Hit Man" and "Donnie Baseball", he spent his entire 14-year MLB playing career with the New York Yankees and later managed the Los Angeles Dodgers for five years and the Miami Marlins for seven years.
1961Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor[†]
Konstantin Nikolaevich Lavronenko is a Soviet and Russian actor most commonly accredited for his performance as the mysterious father of two boys in 2003 film Vozvrashcheniye. He won the Best Actor prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for The Banishment.
1961Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]