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Kennedy sends tax message to Cong
Sen, 65-28, posses Adm bill to raise minimum to $1.25 in 2 yrs and extend coverage to about 4,063,000 more workers; covers firms doing business of at least $1 million yrly in interstate commerce; roll call
Kennedy confs with Nixon, White House; illus; Nixon joins Repub leaders in backing Kennedy, news conf
US loss of prestige and respect in wake of rebel failure seen disastrous; Adm reptdly recognizes it made serious miscalculation; Castro seen strengthened, Khrushchev pose as protector of small nations bolstered, Allied confidence in US leadership shaken; CIA disclosed to have begun mapping invasion plans during Eisenhower Adm under Deputy Dir Bissell supervision; Kennedy Adm disclosed to have been split on plan, Berle favoring it, Rusk and Bowles opposing it; Kennedy apparently approved plan to forestall rebel loss of morale; exaggerated repts on invasion seen to have been used by Castro for own benefit
Brit Navy reptdly orders 2 warships readied to go to Cuba if necessary
1961David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (died 2011)[†]
David Servan-Schreiber was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]