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At the height of a Broadway season, 30,000 persons may enter the theatre district in one night to see the plays and musicals. Of these, an untold number have just left a hotel or have just parked a car in a garage or parking lot.
study of Educ Bd records shows only $2,788,690 was spent for modernization, '58, leaving $26,263,960 available at yr's end; indicates Bd had neither asked for nor recd all funds needed to maintain plant adequately and cut repairs backlog; figures; Theobald repts deficiencies in heating systems in some units built after '45; Bd 'backcharges' those responsible for corrective work; repts $7,432 in such charges were paid recently for work at 2 schools in Bklyn, 1 in Queens
OAS mission arrives; Govt decrees protection for citizens who denounce 'arbitrary conduct' or 'abuse of power' by Govt officials; stresses const rights; Trujillo Jr issues similar decree for armed forces
Who are the people who sit on the dark side of Broadway's footlights today? How many are there, where do they come from and why?
com confs on Castro bid; his stress on tractors as indemnity and release of captives ('traitors') as act of generosity discussed
1961Mary Bonauto, American lawyer and gay rights activist[†]
Mary L. Bonauto is an American lawyer and civil rights advocate who has worked to eradicate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and has been referred to by US Representative Barney Frank as "our Thurgood Marshall." She began working with the Massachusetts-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, now named GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) organization in 1990. A resident of Portland, Maine, Bonauto was one of the leaders who both worked with the Maine legislature to pass a same-sex marriage law and to defend it at the ballot in a narrow loss during the 2009 election campaign. These efforts were successful when, in the 2012 election, Maine voters approved the measure, making it the first state to allow same-sex marriage licenses via ballot vote. Bonauto is best known for being lead counsel in the case Goodridge v. Department of Public Health which made Massachusetts the first state in which same-sex couples could marry in 2004. She is also responsible for leading the first strategic challenges to section three of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
1961Marriage of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent to Katharine Worsley at York Minster.[†]
The wedding of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and Katharine Worsley took place on Thursday, 8 June 1961, at York Minster in York, England. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, was the eldest son of Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, while Katharine Worsley was the only daughter and fourth child of landowner Sir William Worsley, 4th Baronet.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]