Space achievement tops editors year 1961 poll
The 1961 year end editors poll names the space race led by Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard as the top news story. It quotes Titov orbiting and Grissom with the aftermath of Hammarskjold's death and Cuba's failed invasion among other major events.
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Russia
Yuri Gagarin
Gherman Titov
America
Alan Shepard
Gus Grissom
Associated Press
Gagarin
Earth
Shepard
Grissom
Titov
Berlin
East
West Berlin
U.S
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations
U.N
Burma
U Thant
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Soviet Union
United States
John F. Kennedy
White House
Navy
Alan B. Shepard
Virgil I. Grissom
Recapping New England Vignettes From 1961
A column recalls colorful figures from Boston and Vermont including Peggy Cass Danny Kaye Anna Maria Alberghetti and Tom McNeeley Jr. It also presents a Vermont study on property tax practices from 1785 to 1961, highlighting shifts to fair market value assessments, town disparities, and calls for a basic education funding foundation to equalize opportunities.
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James Calogero
Boston
New England
Peggy Cass
Washington Street
Temple Place
Cass
Danny Kaye
New York
Kaye
Mewton
Mass
Anna Marie Alberghetti
Miss Alberghetti
W. Arthur Simpson
Lyndon
Council of Censors
Vermont
Vermont Supreme Court
Isaac F. Redfield
Jonathan Ross
H. Henry Powers
Leonard W. Morrison
Austin Noble
Charles Shea
Listers
Shea
Orleans County
Westmore
Craftsbury
Fashion Trends No Secret Says Experts
New York fashion forecasters say 1962 will bring conservative colors and classic lines in supple fabrics. Rudy Semler Madge Wilson and Bill Blass cite cherry red true blue and hunter greens with romantic flowing silhouettes and furs used as accessories.
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New York
Couturier
Rudy Semler
Madge Wilson
Color Card Association
Bill Biass
Semler
Wilson
Color Information Association
1962 Economic Weather Forecast for Consumers
New York AP reports a cautious 1962 outlook for consumers with rising incomes and slower price gains. Jobs should increase modestly, wages rise gradually, and interest income grows as corporate profits improve. Living costs drift higher but supplies and competition keep inflation in check. Food prices rise seasonally with a spring tilt, housing starts near 1.5 million, and mortgage money plentiful though rates trend up. Auto demand grows across price ranges as competition caps price hikes. Taxes rise modestly with election-year spending and higher local costs. the year may start strong for consumers if business gains momentum later.
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New York
U.S. Treasury
Kennedy's First Year Aims and Ambitions for 1962
AP analysis frames Kennedy as a diligent but cautious leader whose 1961 record shows beginnings rather than full successes. He pushed a modest program through aides, avoided frontal fights, and left civil rights aged care and education partially unsettled. Foreign policy featured Berlin tensions and the Congo, with mixed results from Europe and Latin America. Kennedy’s four guiding directions include social reform ties, Latin American aid, the Rooseveltian big stick stance in the Dominican Republic, and a broader push to lower tariffs amid allied cooperation. The year ends with potential but unproven progress and a need to follow through in 1962.
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Congress
Europe
Latin America
Khrushchev
Harold Macmllian
Charles de Gaulle
Colombia
Venezuela
Fidel Castro
Lems
Kennedy
de Gaulle
Macmillan
United Nations
Congo
Viet Nam
Dominican Republic
Theodore Roosevelt
Government spending to drive 1962 recovery and GNP gains
U S spending remains a major engine of economic growth with projected federal purchases reaching 62 to 63 billion dollars in 1962. Analysts expect the first half of the year to show the strongest rise, then a slower pace as Kennedy pursues a balanced budget.
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Washington
Kennedy
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Troika
Belgian Congo
Patrice Lumumba
Carla
Gulf
Texas
Israel
Adolf Eichmann
Bermuda
Enos
Run
Worcester Turnpike
Alberghetti
Robert Smith
Smith
Tom McNeeley Jr
Floyd Patterson
Toronto
McNeeley
Board of Listers
Lister
Jean Sprain Wilson
Billie Burke
Simonetta
Italy
By Sam Dawson
Harold Macmillan
Konrad Adenauer
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