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Wagner confirms bus-lease plan talks
ALBANY, Dec. 26 -- Representative Samuel S. Stratton announced today his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor next year. The former Schenectady Mayor thus became the first Democrat to enter the race for the Democratic nomination. Governor Rockefeller announced a year ago that he would run for a second term in 1962.
US expects difficulties in negotiating with Portugal on renewal of USAF and USN bases pact; map
Kennedy works, visits father
1961Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (died 2016)[†]
Guido Westerwelle was a German politician who served as foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions. He also led the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 2001 until he stepped down in 2011. A lawyer by profession, he was a member of the Bundestag from 1996 to 2013.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]