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The men known variously in the capitals of the West as "Kremlinologists," "demonologists" and "Kremlin prophets" were working overtime last week. Not since Premier Khrushchev came to power, more than five years ago, had he confronted the West with a more puzzling array of statements and acts.
1st stage of Snowy Mts Scheme for vast irrigation and power project completed; cost over $400 million; map; illus; pacts to begin work on 2d stage awarded; 9 major dams, 10 power stations planned by '75 at cost of some $900 million
Khrushchev warns USSR may extend explosions if US resumes, talks with Prof Codacci-Pisanelli of Council of Interparliamentary Union
NEW HAVEN, Nov. 4 -- Dartmouth administered a 24-8 defeat to Yale today and brought the defending champions' hopes of retaining the Ivy football championship virtually to an end.
Wall Street's worst credit headache became splitting last week when the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to investigate the perhaps inadequate defenses that New York Stock Exchange firms have built against "free riders."
1961Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (died 2012)[†]
Alan Goodwin "Dex" Poindexter was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut. Poindexter was selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-131.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]