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bars post-primary reconciliation with DeSapio, Sharkey and Buckley
bystander R Rojas killed, Lower E Side, by brick hurled from roof at ptl; police attacked, Bklyn
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A power failure on the IND knocked out subway service on two Manhattan lines for an hour and a half early today.
Mayor Wagner, Deputy Mayor Screvane and Comr Lucia inspect snow removal machine 'co-invented' by NYC Sanitation Dept and Peabody Engineering Co; 30 planned; Controller Levitt charges Wagner Adm with 'willfully misspending and dissipating millions of dollars on snow removal' last winter; says NYC gave contracts to 3 cos which sublet 75% of work to other contractors at about 2/3 of rate 3 cos got from NYC; holds Comr Kaplan aware of 'abuses,' should have taken suitable action against then Comr Screvane
1961Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player[†]
Carsten "Calle" Fischer is a former field hockey player from West Germany, who competed at four Summer Olympics for his native country. He won the golden medal with his team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, after securing silver at the two previous Olympics in Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988). At his fourth Olympic games, in Atlanta (1996), he came fourth.
1961Rodney McCray, American basketball player[†]
Rodney Earl McCray is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'7" small forward, he spent 10 seasons (1983–93) in the National Basketball Association (NBA), tallying 9,014 career points and 5,087 career rebounds.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]