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Assn claims '61-62 season no longer possible; breaks off talks; exec com rejects arbitration plan; AFM and Felix charge bad faith; Bing's absence from talks scored by union vp Knopf
Liberal-Dem party rebukes Mikoyan for statements on Japanese policies; charges interference in domestic affairs; Mikoyan has tart exchs with dinner hosts Mins Kosaka and Sato over past Japanese-USSR disputes
Lefkowitz rebuts view that plan for interim Bd will backfire on own candidacy; with Rockefeller denies pol motives inspired call for Legis session; Rockefeller denies Wagner charges he seeks to deprive city of locally chosen Bd; says he follows Allen recommendations
USN to reactivate 33 ships; 19 new ships to join fleet by mid-'62
Surgeon Gen Terry announces Govt licenses mfr of 1 Sabin live-virus oral vaccine effective against Type I polio virus; says vaccine against remaining 2 types will not be available for same time; urges continued use of Salk vaccine; says PHS buys 900, 000 doses of Sabin vaccine for epidemic reserve; details way local communities can tap reserve; Pfizer Ltd (GB) to mfr vaccine, C Pfizer & Co to mkt it in US; Natl Foundation pres O'Connor calls licensing of only 1 vaccine unorthodox; Dr Salk concerned over how remaining doses will be distributed
1961Huw Edwards, Welsh journalist and author[†]
Huw Edwards is a Welsh news presenter. He was the lead presenter of BBC News at Ten, the late evening news programme of BBC Television, from 2003 to 2023. He resigned from the BBC in 2024, during a police investigation into child pornography offences to which he pleaded guilty.
1961Timothy Geithner, American banker and politician, 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury[†]
Timothy Franz Geithner is an American former central banker who served as the 75th United States secretary of the treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009, following service in the Clinton administration. Since March 2014, he has served as president and chairman of Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.
1961Bob Woodruff, American journalist and author[†]
Robert Warren Woodruff is an American television journalist. Since 1996, he has served as a reporter for ABC News. Woodruff co-anchored ABC World News Tonight in 2006 with journalist Elizabeth Vargas. He was severely injured by an IED explosion during a reporting trip to Iraq that January, and he recovered over an extended period before returning to air.
1961Learned Hand, American lawyer, jurist, and philosopher (born 1872)[†]
Billings Learned Hand was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1909 to 1924 and as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1924 to 1961.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]