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US reptdly to accept Thant as Acting Sec Gen on condition he has 4 or 5 Asst Secs but is not 'required' to consult them; US acted after USSR indicated it would accept Thant but reject Slim
marchers, in talks at Moscow U, press unilateral disarmament plea; Russian students defy faculty effort to curtail meeting
Civil Rights Comm rept urges Exec order banning bias in Fed-aided housing and by Fed-supervised mortgage lenders; proposal exceeds '59 recommendations; rept cites instances of bias; urges Fed agencies study impact of Fed housing policies among minority groups
hosp repts he has cancer and will not recover; surgery not planned; Pres Kennedy, H S Truman express sorrow
E Ger guard fires at W Berlin policeman, misses; E Ger protests wounding of guard in previous incident; Clay confs with Brandt
1961Miyuki Matsuda, Japanese actress[†]
Miyuki Matsuda is a Japanese actress, the widow of Yūsaku Matsuda, and the sister of Mami Kumagai.
1961Paul Sansome, English footballer[†]
Paul Eric Sansome is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made more than 150 appearances in the Football League for Millwall and more than 300 for Southend United.
1961Ben Summerskill, English businessman and journalist[†]
Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill is chair of The Silver Line and director of the Criminal Justice Alliance, a consortium of 135 charities working across the GB criminal justice pathway. He was the chief executive of the UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality organisation Stonewall, the largest gay equality body in Europe, from 2003 to 2014. He has also worked as a businessman and journalist. Summerskill is an occasional contributor to The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Times, Time Out and other publications. In 2015 he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British LGBT Awards In 2017, he was appointed by the UK government to the council (Board) of ACAS, the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service. He was first appointed a trustee of the Silver Line in 2017.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]