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Labor Dept repts factory workers' wkly pay up to record $94.24, June; work-wk up 0.4 hr, May-June; Deputy Asst Sec Wolfbein comments
Govt curbs Austrians travel to Italy; moves after new series of bombings near Luino, Como and Dolce; 4 rr lines damaged; map; Austria protests curbs
refugee vol from E Ger to W Berlin up sharply to 2,600 in wk-end; E Ger curbs on those who work in W Berlin, fears of mil showdown linked; Govt bars E Ger Bishop Krummacher from going to W Berlin for Evangelical Ch conf
NK and Communist China sign mutual defense pact to jointly adopt 'all measures to prevent aggression'; pact signed by Chou and Kim Il Sung; similar to that signed with USSR; observers see it part of 3-cornered pact intensifying tension; other reaction
Pres Ayub Khan arrives, Washington; accompanied by daughter; mot at Andrews Air Force Base by Pres and Mrs Kennedy; exchs greetings with Kennedy; hailed by crowds on way to Blair House; confs 2 hrs with Kennedy; hon at Mt Vemon state dinner; festivities described; illus
1961Heikko Glöde, German footballer and manager[â ]
Heikko Glöde is a retired German football manager and former player.
1961Shiva Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer[â ]
Dr.Shiva Rajkumar is an Indian actor, film producer and television presenter who predominantly works in Kannada cinema. In a career spanning over three decades, he has worked in over 125 films in Kannada and has received several awards, including four Karnataka State Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards South and six South Indian International Movie Awards.
1961Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author and playwright (born 1879)[â ]
Mazo de la Roche was a Canadian writer who was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.
1961Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.[â ]
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia.
1961ÄSA Flight 511 crashes at CasablancaâAnfa Airport in Morocco, killing 72.[â ]
ÄSA Flight 511 was a flight operated by an Ilyushin Il-18 that crashed near Casablanca-Anfa Airport in Morocco on July 12, 1961. All 72 people on board were killed. The cause of the crash remains undetermined.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[â ]