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INGLEWOOD, Calif., May 27 -- First Balcony wrecked the comeback run of the highly favored Prove It today with a smashing victory in the $112,700 Californian at Hollywood Park. The winner was a 12-1 shot.
dinner, Washington, 5,000 attend; Kennedy, H S Truman, Vice Pres Johnson, Speaker Rayburn s; illus
Kennedy to ask Cong create 'peace' agency to study all aspects of disarmament and formulate plans; agency to be semi-autonomous between State Dept and Pres; idea stems from Sen Humphrey
Through rain, cold and murk, Villanova's favored forces swept to victory yesterday in the eighty-fifth annual track and field championships of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America.
1961Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.[†]
Peter Benenson was a British barrister, human rights activist and the founder of the human rights group Amnesty International (AI); a global movement of more than 10 million people, currently, and in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end abuses on human rights and to secure the release of political prisoners.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]