Evening star., 1961-12-28

"eNsPupeS unu Tou'o StotIonS news
editors ore osked onnuolIy to vote
tor the top news personalities Of
the yeor. The selection does not
necessarily indicate support Of poll
eies or oetions Of the person chosen.
They merely identity the individuals
who made the top news Of 1861 in
their respective fields.
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margin over the runner-up. So
Wet Premier Nikita Khrushchev,
a two-time choice himself.
During the year, Mr.. Kennedy:
Was inaugurated as the
youngest elected President Of
the United States; the first
Roman Catholic to occupy that
office in history, and the first
Democrat in the White House
in eight years.
Travelled to an informal sum-
init meeting with Khrushchev
in Vienna. in which both world
leaders shared the headlines
with Mr.. Kennedy's beautiful
and fashionable wife, Jacque-
line.
Assumed what has been
called the most difficult job in
the world with all its plaudits
and barbs as new problems
boiled in civil rights, education,
health, security and world
affairs.
Tops in Foreign News
Mr.. Khrushchev, who is able
to precipitate crises in most any
part Of the world with the turn
OF his hand. was the editors
choice as newsmaker Of the
year in foreign affairs. He has
been named in that category
for the past three years and
four times in the last five
years.
In 1861. Mr.. Khrushchev: l.
Kept the Berlin crisis at boil
ing point; 2. Exploded a 50-plus
megaton nuclear bomb; 3. En-
ployed all his diplomatic wiles
to keep a widening breach with
his old ally, Red China, from
becoming an open break.
Mr.. Khrushchev. whom some
WeSternerS call the worlds No.
l troublemaker. retained his
title in foreign affairs by a slim
margin over the worlds No.
peacemaker, Dag Hammer
skiold, who died in a plane
crash while on a peace mission
in the turbulent Congo.
Other winners in The AsSo-
ciated Press poll of it's news
paper. radio and television
members were: Religion, DR..
Eugene Carson Blake; business
and industry. George Romney;
science. Maj. Yuri Gagarin;
labor, James Hoffa; literature,
the late Ernest Hemingway: en-
tertainment, Newton Minow;
sports, Roger Maris; and wom-
en-. Jacqueline Kennedy.
Campaigned For Merger
DR.. Blake. stated clerk of the
Presbyterian Church, cam
paigned for a merger Of Pres
byterian. Episcopal. Methodist
and other churches. He barely
nosed out Pope John XIII,
the winner in the last three
years.
Mr.. Romney. president of
American Motors. continued to
dominate the business and in
dustry category by negotiating
and defending the first profit
sharing plan among the major
motor companies. It was his
fourth selection.
Maj. Gagarin. Soviet space
man. won the prize in science
as the first man to orbit the
earth in a space craft, the
top scientific feat Of the year.
American rocketeer Wernher
Won Braun won in the last
four years.
Mr.. Hoffa was named in the
labor category for the second
straight year by continuing his
feud with the Government and
other labor leaders and being
reelected, with new powers, as
president of the Teamsters
Union. A strong second: Labor
Secretary Arthur Goldberg.
Novelist Gunsh0t Victim
Mr.. Hemingway, Nobel
Prize winner a few years ago,
made his last big headlines in
1861 when he died of self
inflicted gunShot wounds ct his
home in Idaho. Mr.. Heming-
way had been newsmaker Of
the year in literature previ-
ously in 1852 and 1854.
Mr.. Minow, chairman of the
Federal Communications Com
mission which holds power
over television licenses, crashed
the entertainment scene with
a strongly critical speech in
which he referred to TVS "cul-
tural waStelands. He won mar
rowly over TV entertainer Jack
Paar.
Maris, the New York Yankee
outfielder who surpassed Babe
Ruth'S magic 60 home run rec
ord - although it took 160
games to do twas virtually
the only nominee of the editors
for newsmaker Of the year in
sports.
And Jacqueline Kennedy
captured the revived woman
newsmaker title by heing the
Presidents wife-and showed
she deserved it by all but over
shadowing her husband and
Mr.. Khrushchev in headlines
during the summit meeting in
Vienna.
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