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Amer tourism to W Eur down after record '60 travel; indus concerned; contributory factors weighed; some signs of reversal in trend seen
Business continued to show improvement during June, the National Association of Purchasing Agents reported last week, following a survey of members.
comment on hardened USSR and US stands on tests ban and gen disarmament
A big question facing Wall Street at midyear is, "The bond market: where is it going?"
preliminary polls indicate US will not be able to keep representation issue from Assembly agenda; issue revd
1961Clark Kellogg, American basketball player and sportscaster[†]
Clark Clifton Kellogg Jr. is an American former professional basketball player who is the lead college basketball analyst for CBS Sports. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Indiana Pacers.
1961Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)[†]
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]