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August 20, 1961

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Headlines from August 20, 1961

CITY AGENCIES ASK 1.3 BILLION OUTLAY; Capital Budget Requests Up 181 Million -- Felt Says Fund Pleas Must Be Cut CITY AGENCIES ASK 1.3 BILLION OUTLAY

By Paul Crowell

Planning Comm gets '62 requests totaling $1,320,799,355, double what agencies recd in '61; Comr Felt repts requests indicate $818,710,077 would have to be raised by additional borrowing power within debt limit, sum more than twice $385 million Gerosa said was safe for '62; Comm summarizes major requests

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WHODUNIT SECOND; Divine Comedy Takes Saratoga Handicap-Tompion Is Third SPA FEATURE GOES TO DIVINE COMEDY

By Joseph C. Nichols Special To the New York Times

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., Aug. 19 -- Divine Comedy of the Llangollen Farm registered a front-running triumph in the fifty-eighth presentation of the $55,300 Saratoga Handicap today. With Willie Shoemaker doing the steering, Divine Comedy scored by three-quarters of a length over the High Tide Stable's Whodunit in the test of a mile and a quarter.

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Wagner Accepts State Bill On Choosing School Board; Abandons Attempt to Set Up His Own Nominating Panel -- Pledges to Make Selection on Nonpartisan Basis Mayor Accepts State Proposal For Choosing New School Board

By Gene Currivan

Wagner accepts plan; Silver gratified interim Bd was ruled out; W M Langsdorf critical of some of Bd's operations but defends Theobald; Taylor hails Theobald

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The Lively Bat Becomes a Livelier Issue; Light Weapon Used in Race to Topple Ruth Homer Mark The Lively Bat Becomes Even Livelier Issue

By Joseph M. Sheehan

It takes two to tango. It also takes a bat as well as a ball to bring about a home run.

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RUSSIA'S PEASANTS ARE ON THE MARCH; Their Lives, Mr. Hindus Has Found, Have Been Remade by the Revolution HOUSE WITHOUT A ROOF. By Maurice Hindus. 562 pp. New York: Doubleday & Co. $6.95. Russia

By Harrison E. Salisbury

"CAN the Western world unite and organize for the historic challenge it is facing in backward peasant countries as does the Communist world?"

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1961Amanda Sonia Berry, English businesswoman^[†]

Amanda Sonia Berry, CBE is the chief executive officer of the Royal Foundation. She was CEO of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) from December 2000 to October 2022.

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1961Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)^[†]

Percy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science. The Bridgman effect, the Bridgman–Stockbarger technique, and the high-pressure mineral bridgmanite are named after him.

Historical Context for August 20, 1961

In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people^[†]

Headlines from August 20, 1961

CITY AGENCIES ASK 1.3 BILLION OUTLAY; Capital Budget Requests Up 181 Million -- Felt Says Fund Pleas Must Be Cut CITY AGENCIES ASK 1.3 BILLION OUTLAY

WHODUNIT SECOND; Divine Comedy Takes Saratoga Handicap-Tompion Is Third SPA FEATURE GOES TO DIVINE COMEDY

Wagner Accepts State Bill On Choosing School Board; Abandons Attempt to Set Up His Own Nominating Panel -- Pledges to Make Selection on Nonpartisan Basis Mayor Accepts State Proposal For Choosing New School Board

The Lively Bat Becomes a Livelier Issue; Light Weapon Used in Race to Topple Ruth Homer Mark The Lively Bat Becomes Even Livelier Issue

RUSSIA'S PEASANTS ARE ON THE MARCH; Their Lives, Mr. Hindus Has Found, Have Been Remade by the Revolution HOUSE WITHOUT A ROOF. By Maurice Hindus. 562 pp. New York: Doubleday & Co. $6.95. Russia

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