The economy seems to be sailing along on an even keel and the 1961 hurricane season and auto strikes are at an end so they can't be blamed in November.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

-- This budget will provide in the fiscal year 1961 for the continued support of our forces at approximately the present level -- a year-end strength of 2,489,000 men and women in the active forces.

In 1961, these expenditures are estimated at $18.9 billion, compared to $19.3 billion in 1960.

The two Governments agree that the issuance of purchase authorizations for wheat and rice providing for purchase after June 30, 1961, shall be dependent upon the determination by the United States Government that these commodities are in surplus supply and available under Title 1, of the Act at that time.

The United States Government shall have the right to terminate the financing of further sales under this Agreement of any commodity if it determines at any time after June 30, 1961, that such action is necessitated by the existence of an international emergency.

Major activity at Providence in 1961 will involve the scheduled completion of tooling for production of the Uniconer automatic coning machine.

The outlook for entertainment electronics in 1961 is certainly far from clear at present, but recent surveys have shown a desire on the part of consumers to step up their buying plans for durable goods.

I would expect that sales at retail in the first half of 1961 might be below 1960 by some 10 - 15% but that second-half levels should show a favorable comparison, with a possibility of quite strong demand late in the year if business conditions recover as some recent forecasts suggest they will.

I look for TV sales and production to be approximately equal at 5.7 million sets for the year, but I look for some decline in radios from the high rate in 1961 to more nearly the 1959 level of 15.0 - 15.5 million sets.

Mississippi's relations with the national Democratic party will be at a crossroads during 1961, with the first Democratic president in eight years in the White House.

In either case, it could call a special session of the Legislature later in 1961 to make another stab at raising additional revenues through a tax raiser.

A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis Vikings and the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will be discussed by National Football League owners at a meeting at the Hotel Warwick today.

Tonight at 8 o'clock the Cardinals, who gave the Pirates as much trouble as anyone did in 1960, breaking even with them, will get their first 1961 shot at baseball's world champions.

There will be a stag dinner Friday evening at the Denver Country Club which will precede the opening of the 1961 golf season.

About 70 North Providence taxpayers made appeals to the board of tax assessors for a review of their 1961 tax assessments during the last two days at the town hall in Centredale.

She will receive the 1961 `` Oscar '' at the 24th annual Neiman-Marcus Exposition, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel.

Further improvements in earnings of the Kansas Turnpike are expected late in 1961, with the opening of a new bypass at Wichita, and still later when the turnpike gets downtown connections in both Kansas City, Kans., and Kansas City, Mo..

See also note 43 at p. 163, with references to Palanque ( 1933 ), Gaudemet ( 1972 ), Matthews ( 1975 ) and King ( 1961 )</ ref > Under Ambrose's influence, Theodosius issued the 391 " Theodosian decrees ," which with increasing intensity outlawed Pagan practises, and the Altar of Victory was removed by Gratian.

But an even bigger facility would be needed for the mammoth rocket required for the manned lunar mission, so land acquisition was started in July 1961 for a Launch Operations Center ( LOC ) immediately north of Canaveral at Merritt Island.

* 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

File: DB4GT Zagato at Goodwood. jpg | 1961 – 1963 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato

The term " doo-wop " is first known to have appeared in print in 1961 in the Chicago Defender, when fans of the music coined the term during the height of a vocal harmony resurgence.

Skutsch ( 1961 ) regards Ennius ' variant as the most likely, with Romulus's Palatine augury as a later development, after common usage had extended the Aventine's name – formerly used for only the greater, northeastern height – to include its lesser neighbour.

Due to its significant height difference compared with the surrounding terrain the Brocken has the highest precipitation of any point in northern central Europe, with an average annual precipitation ( 1961 – 1990 ) of 1, 814 millimetres.

In 1961, the government of Canada, under the leadership of Victor Malm, undertook a historical reconstruction of one quarter of the town and fortifications with the aim being to recreate Louisbourg as it would have been at its height in the 1740s.

French was also ridiculed by Alan Clark ( who called him " a weak-willed man of medium height ") in the widely-read The Donkeys ( 1961 ).

When the temperature profile is adiabatic, the wind speed should vary logarithmically with height, Measurements over open terrain in 1961 showed good agreement with the logarithmic fit up to 100 m or so, with near constant average wind speed up through 1000 m .< ref name = Thuillier >

Exceptionally large trees recorded include a 35 m ( 114 ft ) high specimen from the Chickasawhay District, De Soto National Forest in Mississippi which measured 17 feet 8 inches in circumference at breast height, from 1961, and a 30 m ( 99 ft ) tall tree from Baton Rouge in Louisiana which reached 18 feet in circumference at breast height.

" was the B-side of " Going Home to Mary Lou " and appeared on his 1961 album Neil Sedaka Sings " Little Devil " and His Other Hits ; and " All the Words in the World " was recorded but was kept in the RCA vaults until 1977, at the height of Sedaka's return to popularity, when it was released on the album Neil Sedaka: The ' 50s and ' 60s.

When the temperature profile is adiabatic, the wind speed should vary logarithmically with height, Measurements over open terrain in 1961 showed good agreement with the logarithmic fit up to 100 m or so ( within the surface layer ), with near constant average wind speed up through 1000 m .< ref name = Thuillier >

Other exploitation such as the dredging of the mussel beds of the Firth of Thames, reaching its height in 1961 with an estimated 15 million mussels taken ( shortly before collapse of the industry ) have led to damages which have not been recovered forty years later, possibly due to the dredging having destroyed the underwater surfaces, and sediment drainage from the agriculture in the Firth of Thames affecting the mussle's viability.

From 1961 to 1974, at the height of the guest worker in Western Europe, about 100, 000 Spaniards emigrated each year.

At its height in the mid-1980s the Plain Truth had a monthly circulation of eight million in seven languages, including English, German from August 1961, French from June 1963, Spanish from 1968, Dutch from 1968, Italian from July 1982 and Norwegian from February 1984.

After completion of the new wood tower, which was without the arms carrying the antenna 156 meters tall ( with these arms its height amounted to 163 meters ), the second wood tower was dismantled and rebuilt in 1935 at Nuremberg-Kleinreuth, where it was used until 1961 as transmission tower for medium wave.

This was at the height of the Cold War and in 1961 came the erection of the infamous Berlin Wall.

On December 15, 1960, the first launch of the Kumulus, which had a maximum height of 20 kilometres, took place and on September 16, 1961, the first launch of the Cirrus, which had a maximum height of 50 kilometers, took place.

In 1961, digital clocks were installed at the height of 65 metres from the ground, which was donated by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., a Japanese electronics manufacturer.

In 1961 – 1962, Bill Haley y sus Cometas ( as the band was known in Latin America ) signed with the Orfeón label of Mexico and scored an unexpected hit with " Twist Español ", a Spanish language recording based on the Twist dance craze that was sweeping America at the time.

His performances at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California during the summer of 1961, and his regional hit " Let's Go Trippin '" later that year, launched the surf music craze, which he followed up with hits like " Misirlou " ( 1962 ).

The craze was even referenced by the United States Federal Open Market Committee ( FOMC ) when actions in 1961 were dubbed " Operation Twist ".

The instrumental rock and roll pioneered by performers such as Duane Eddy, Link Wray, and The Ventures was developed by Dick Dale who added distinctive " wet " reverb, rapid alternate picking, as well as Middle Eastern and Mexican influences, producing the regional hit " Let's Go Trippin '" in 1961 and launching the surf music craze.