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MICHAELANGELO ANTONIONI, the Italian film director who made the controversial "L'Avventura," which was something of a puzzler last year, is back at us with another picture in somewhat the same cryptic vein. It is called "The Night" ("La Notte") and it is now at the Little Carnegie.
A self-policing program has been established by the Staten Island Home Builders Association.
WHEN Cheryl Crawford disclosed recently that she would produce Bertoit Brecht's play, "Mother Courage," the announcement put the spotlight on the theatre's version of the old Abbott and Costello who'son-first routine.
Bank stocks boom in '61, decline in Dec-Jan because of interest rate rises and recovery since then discussed
1962Birgit Fischer, German kayaker[†]
Birgit Fischer is a German former kayaker, who has won eight gold medals over six different Olympic Games, a record she shares with Aladár Gerevich and Isabell Werth, spanning seven Olympiads: twice representing East Germany, then four times representing the reunited nation. After both the 1988 and 2000 games, she announced her retirement, only to return for the subsequent games. She has been both the youngest- and oldest-ever Olympic canoeing champion. In 2004, she was chosen as the German sportswoman of the year.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]