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10 million Frenchmen stop work briefly to demonstrate soliderity with de Gaulle; other solidarity and mobilization signs discussed
WASHINGTON, April 24 -- President Sukarno of Indonesia received a warm personal and official welcome from President Kennedy today as he arrived for talks on Far East problems. Nothing of substance was disclosed officially about today's conversations.
US weighs total trade embargo; imports from Cuba continue at $70-million annual rate despite curbs; Kennedy responsibility for US role in landing reaffirmed; Sen Morse scores US role; Sec Udall sees popular and bipartisan support, TV int; notes that landing was conceived under Eisenhower and carried out under Kennedy; assailed by Repubs including Dirksen and Nixon; regrets interpretation of statement
4th A-bomb exploded at Reggan, concluding above-ground tests; map; devices may be tested at Indian Ocean site
New Rochelle Educ Bd, 6-3, adopts desegregation plan in accordance with Kaufman order; any pupil at Lincoln School may register at any school under certain conditions
1961Dinesh D'Souza, Indian-American journalist and author[†]
Dinesh Joseph D'Souza is an American right-wing political commentator, conspiracy theorist, author, and filmmaker. He has made several films and written over a dozen books, several of them New York Times best-sellers.
1961Miran Tepeš, Slovenian ski jumper[†]
Miran Tepeš is a Slovenian former ski jumper and current ski jumping official who competed for Yugoslavia and Slovenia from 1979 to 1992. He won a silver medal in the team large hill competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. He finished fourth in the normal hill individual competition, and tenth in the large hill competition.
1961Robert Garrett, American discus thrower and shot putter (born 1875)[†]
Robert S. Garrett was an American athlete, as well as investment banker and philanthropist in Baltimore, Maryland and financier of several important archeological excavations. Garrett was the first modern Olympic champion in discus throw as well as shot put.
1961Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.[†]
Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was also credited with the realization of the first monolithic integrated circuit or microchip made with silicon, which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]