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Dramatists Guild, citing theatre's severe econ crisis, votes to cut royalties if other personnel do likewise
Kennedy appeals to all Amers to contribute to tractor buying; says Govt is not party to exch, that there are no legal bars and that contributions are tax-deductible; Capehart, Goldwater continue attacks; Mansfield defends exch; notes good reception in Latin Amer
strong Dem orgn pressure developing for Stark and Gerosa renomination if Wagner runs; leaders see him accepting Stark but not Gerosa; weigh alternates if Wagner does not run, including Controller Levitt, Justices Botein and Epstein, Surrogate DiFalco
repts Adm will ask over $100 million for additional aid, news conf; says US experts will advise Asian Govts on utilization; stresses need to attack problems on broad regional basis; says there is no plan to assign any US troops to nations he visited
Sen, 66-25, rejects Goldwater amendment for loans for non-pub schools; HR com, 18-13, approves slightly different Thompson bill; com chmn Repr Powell rules Zelenko amendment out of order
1961Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.[†]
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in space. It was conceived in 1960 as a three-person spacecraft during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third American human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]