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passes his commuter benefit tax bill and other bills to achieve balancing
US Sup Ct rules, 4-3, that du Pont must dispose of its 63 million GM shares, must act promptly and complete divestiture by '71; co, Justice Dept and Fed Dist Judge LaBuy to work out details; co pres Greenewalt calls for Cong action to ease tax impact on individual stockholders; Justice Brennan writes majority decision, Justice Frankfurter the dissent; Justices Clark and Harlan do not participate; LaBuy approved plan to let co keep shares but pass on voting rights to individual stockholders rejected in favor of 'surer, clearer' divestiture; majority is same as that which ruled in '57 that du Pont ownership of GM shares was antitrust violation; shares are 23% of stock outstanding; Brennan holds LeBuy wrongly focused on tax and stock mkt effects of divestiture instead of an antitrust remedy; holds Govt cannot be denied remedy because of resulting econ hardship; says 'pass-through' plan would not assure end of intercorporate community of interest; Frankfurter critical of '57 decision giving LaBuy 'discretion' but not indicating divestiture was 'clear' remedy; holds effect of du Pont-GM relationship still unproved
junta dissolves all pol parties and many soc orgns; Green confs with Kim Hong Il; US concerned over disruptive effect of coup on mil command; sees near-mutiny by Korean sr officers who ignored Magruder's command; Chang Do Young reptdly still names Korean officers to replace purged officers without seeking Magruder's approval; thousands of students parade, Seoul; 2,014 pol suspects arrested to date
Nominated USAF Deputy C/S
Reston repts USSR officials, Geneva, hopeful for settlement of US-Cuba differences
1961Daniele Massaro, Italian footballer and manager[†]
Daniele Emilio Massaro is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward.
1961Norrie May-Welby, Scottish Australian gender activist[†]
Norrie, also known by the pseudonym Norrie May-Welby, is a Scottish-Australian transgender person who pursued the legal status of being neither a man nor a woman, between 2010 and 2014. The High Court of Australia ruled in April 2014 that it was in the power of the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages to record in the register that the sex of Norrie was 'non-specific'.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]