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Mayor Wagner repts $1-million-a-yr numbers racket broken as result of anon lr to his special PO complaint box; 9 held
Wins '61 Pulitzer Prize for book Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (biog prize)
trial resumes with testimony on Nazi crimes against Jews in Poland; Y Gurfein describes death train carrying 1,300 to Belsec concentration camp, Jan '43; Hungarian refugee Z Schaeffer disrupts trial with shouts against Eichmann; ejected from ct; illus; Hausner submits orders for pub hanging of 7 Jews in Czechanow, Poland, allegedly signed by Eichmann; Servatius charges they are taken out of context, that Eichmann wanted orders corroborated by his superiors
preparations discussed; launching attempt to be made within 5-day time limit imposed by ltd fuel and supplies of recovery ships; Mercury astronaut to have considerable control over capsule
Comr Murphy suspends ptl, investigates 2d for accepting 'gratuities' from 2 Village cafes; Mitchell files complaint against police sgt for abuse while serving summons on Gaslight
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]