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test missile successfully intercepts Nike-Hercules in flight, White Sands; illus; this and 2 other tests, Pt Mugu and Kwajalein, seen spurring Army bid for funds to start advance production
Estimate Bd approves it; Citizens Union protests; charges Presidents will do less under new Charter; disputed by Dudley
accused by USAF of giving mil secrets to unidentified foreign agents during visit to Ger, Oct '60, while on way to new post there; he has been returned to Ger for probe
Formed by Webb & Knapp and Second Covent Garden Property Co (GB); will own and operate 13 US urban renewal projects now held by Webb & Knapp; London banking house Philip Hill, Higginson, Erlangers to aid in financing; other sources of $43,750,000 financing noted
Paintings, sculpture and other art objects valued at more than $1,000,000 have been left to art museums and colleges here and in Israel under the will of the late Loula D. Lasker.
1961Yuri Malenchenko, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut[†]
Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko is a retired Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles (390 km) over New Zealand, on the International Space Station. As of December 2023, Malenchenko ranks third for career time in space due to his time on both Mir and the International Space Station (ISS). He is a former commander of the International Space Station.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]