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HR com, 19-11, approves bill extending Act and providing $375 million in loans for non-pub schools; Morse issues HEW Dept memo that such loans would be const; Rayburn on outlook for Adm bill
2 on Comm rept contractor charged he paid $25-35 a mo to inspectors to get work expedited, cleared and approved; B Astrove says payment for work his co did was delayed 2 yrs until he gave $50 to Ammirati; Kaplan charges Ammirati collected funds from contractors, asks action against him; Okun repts some contractors swore that 3 construction mgrs on Bd recd gift ctfs; says latter failed to so indicate on questionnaires; supervisor E Buckley denies taking gifts; D J Rice Inc repts giving $2,000 in Xmas gifts to inspectors and supervisors
Macmillan hints of willingness to negotiate, but warns that West will not submit to USSR blackmail and modify commitments, s, Commons; Brit drive for new Western proposals seen; other speculation; Macmillan urges return to '59 proposals for settlement; strong Western stand backed and Mansfield proposal scored by AFL-CIO exec council
1961Kurt Eichenwald, American journalist[†]
Kurt Alexander Eichenwald is an American journalist and a New York Times bestselling author of five books, one of which, The Informant (2000), was made into a motion picture in 2009. He was a senior writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times, Condé Nast's business magazine, Portfolio, and later was a contributing editor with Vanity Fair and a senior writer with Newsweek. Eichenwald had been employed by The New York Times since 1986 and primarily covered Wall Street and corporate topics such as insider trading, accounting scandals, and takeovers, but also wrote about a range of issues including terrorism, the Bill Clinton pardon controversy, federal health care policy, and sexual predators on the Internet.
1961Jeff Malone, American basketball player and coach[†]
Jeffrey Nigel Malone is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, and is mostly known for his time with the Washington Bullets (1983–1990) of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he was an NBA All-Star twice, playing the shooting guard position. He also played for the Utah Jazz, Philadelphia 76ers, and Miami Heat.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]