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Commonwealth objections and signs of conflict with Euromkt interests seen preventing GE from joining; examples
Eichmann, testifying for 12th day, says 'I have never killed anyone, never mishandled anyone, never beaten up anyone'; denies killing Jewish boy who stole cherries; again confronted with Gordon testimony on incident, May; says he visited Auschwitz and other camps only as observer and to make factual repts; denies giving 'advice or tips' to Nazis on operations; says he made trips 'reluctantly' and hated what he saw; denies attempt to foil Adm Horthy order to stop death train from Hungary; angrily denies R Hoess statement at Nuremberg trial, '46, that Eichmann had conf with him at Auschwitz about killing Jews with gas; denies giving statistics on number killed
Sales and business taxes yielded record $566,632,327, fiscal '61, $5 million over '60; breakdown; Schwartz comments
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]