Westbury High School - Wing and Spur Yearbook (Westbury, NY)

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One of the year’s most dramatic pictures as East Berlin soldier leaps over a barbed wire barricade into West Berlin. Adolf Eichmann, charged by the Israeli government with the murder of mil- lions of Jews, is flanked by guards in his bullet-proof dock during his long trial which started in April . Cuban government picture caption says this is Castro’s militia in action in area of Laguna Del Tosoro (Treasure Lagoon) southeast of Havana during unsuccessful invasion attempt by expatriate Cubans. Soviet-built personnel carriers tow artillery pieces through Plaza Jose Marti in Havana, Cuba, during parade honoring the third anniver- sary of Castro’s revolution. In the background are five-floor high pictures of Castro and Lenin. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev embraced Russia’s cosmonauts, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ex- Maj. Gherman Titov, left, and Maj. Yuri Gagarin, after both made change smiles with Mrs. John F. Kennedy space flights around the world. when they attended a concert in Vienna during the-President’s trip to Europe which included a meeting with Khrushchev. 10

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This is all that remained of homes along a stretch of road in the Bcl- Air section of Los Angeles after a brush fire swept the area—worst in Los Angeles history. A freedom rider bus goes up in flames after a fire bomb Roger Maris, New York Yankees’ was tossed through a window near Anniston, Ala. outfielder, finishes swing after hit- ting 61st homer at Yankee Stadium on last day of season. Redstone rocket carrying Astronaut Virgil Grissom’s capsule lifts off Cape Canaveral launching pad on space flight. Model family fallout shelter holds attention of visitors at the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville, symbolic of the upsurge of national interest in civil defense. President Kennedy and cabinet members before the first cabinet session at the White House. From left, Postmaster General Edward Day, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Vice President Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert McNa- mara, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Labor Secre- tary Arthur Goldberg, Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribi- coff. Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall.

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Katanga president Moise Tshombe placed a wreath on the coffin of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold after Hammarskjold died in a plane crash while enroute to Congo cease-fire talks. Princess Margaret and husband, Lord Snowdon, the former Antony Armstrong- Joncs, with their first child, David Albert Charles, Viscount Linley. Delegates from United States, Britain and the Soviet Union resume nuclear test ban talks after end of Russia’s 1961 test series. Papers and confetti rain from buildings in Bogota as enthusiastic crowds greet President and Mi's. Kennedy to the Colombian capital.