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Offers plan for Laos neutrality, s, Geneva
Comm charges Bway Maintenance used false financial and work data to conceal excessive profits and poor work; shows Bway paid 28% more than Welsbach for same type of wire; both bought wire at same time from Ace Wire & Cable; Comm charges Bway bought 39,000 ft, '60, for $24,000 and listed it for use on lighting contract, but Water Supply, Gas and Elec Dept shows only 7,000 ft installed at $1,600 cost; other charges of repair records falsification noted; Traffic Dept and Water Supply aides admit agencies depend solely on cos repts for contracts performance; Comm links V Carney and D Myers jobs with Bway to their pol links with Adm; Dell Plain puts Welsbach profits on lighting contracts at 40% before taxes; Lipkins puts Bway profits on same contracts at 6% before taxes; Grumet demands Deputy Mayor Screvane be subpoenaed for not producing rept on light servicing in Central Park; Screvane comments
Pathet Lao and Laotian Govt reprs agree to discuss setting up coalition govt and joint mil comm to help supervise cease-fire, Namone; Pathet Lao win main demand to give formation of govt top priority
Rockefeller names T B Gilchrist Jr special comr to probe bingo
US to increase mil aid, Johnson-Sarit Thanarat communique; both stress need to preserve Thai independence; Johnson makes TV and other ss; tours; other activities
1961Russell Senior, English singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Russell Senior is a British musician and the former guitarist and violinist of the band Pulp.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]