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Zaretzki, Travia to offer Const amendment to increase Sen to 60 seats and Assembly to 180 seats to correct what they call imbalance; details
elder Kennedy stricken with pneumonia; undergoes successful tracheotomy to relieve congestion; visited by Pres and other family members
Kennedy and Frondizi conf, Palm Beach, on mins conf; White House announcement implies Frondizi support for conf; text
USSR reaction to Kennedy-Macmillan talks chills Western hopes for settlement; speculation; Macmillan-Adenauer talks set for Jan 9
1961Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian political scientist and politician[†]
Íngrid Betancourt Pulecio is a Colombian-French politician, former senator, and anti-corruption activist. She gained international prominence after being kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2002 while campaigning for the Colombian presidency as a Green candidate. She was rescued in 2008 during Operation Jaque, a military operation conducted by Colombian security forces.
1961Owen Brewster, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (born 1888)[†]
Ralph Owen Brewster was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, served as the 54th governor of Maine from 1925 to 1929, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941 and in the U.S. Senate from 1941 to 1952. Brewster was a close confidant of Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and an antagonist of Howard Hughes. He was defeated by Frederick G. Payne, whose campaign was heavily funded by Hughes, in the 1952 Republican primary.
1961Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1873)[†]
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936, which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, who was a lifelong friend that helped to inspire the neurotransmitter experiment. Loewi met Dale in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's laboratory at University College, London.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]