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The Jersey City Jerseys, nee Havana Sugar Kings, may be forced to become baseball nomads again next season. The problem is:
A United States track and field squad, adjudged as strong in the men's section as any to have represented this nation in the past, departed by plane last night on a three-week European tour involving matches against the Soviet Union, West Germany, Great Britain and Poland.
MOSCOW -- No American tourist in his right mind goes all the way to Russia and spends any length of time in Moscow purely for pleasure travel. This is travel with a purpose, and the American tourists met and searched out in a four-day stay in this city all agreed that the trip was worth the effort in view of what they had learned on their excursions deep inside the Iron Curtain.
Amer Investment Co, with Fair, Isaac & Co aid, devises credit scoring system it hopes will cut baddebt charge-offs 25%; system described
on widespread employer negligence in paying soc security taxes for domestics
1961Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case(born 1901)[†]
Whittaker Chambers was an American writer and intelligence agent. After early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), he defected from the Soviet underground in 1938. He then worked for Time magazine (1939–1948) before his testimony about the Ware Group and the participation of Alger Hiss saw Chambers sued for libel in 1948 in a case referred to as "the trial of the century", all described in his 1952 memoir Witness. Afterwards, he worked as a senior editor at National Review (1957–1959). U.S. President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.
1961Greece becomes the first member state to join the European Economic Community by signing the Athens Agreement, which was suspended in 1967 during the Greek junta.[†]
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, spanning thousands of islands and nine traditional geographic regions. It has a population of over 10 million. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]