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Federico Fellini's film La Dolce Vita premieres.
Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is published.
Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker premieres.
Alain Resnais's film Last Year at Marienbad premieres.
1 Jan.
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev indicates in a New Year's toast that the Soviet Union might disarm unilaterally if it fails to reach an arms agreement with the West.
3 Jan.
The Moscow State Symphony becomes the first Soviet orchestra to play in the United States.
4 Jan.
Albert Camus dies in an automobile accident near Paris.
8 Jan.
West Berlin students hold mass demonstrations against recent outbreaks of neo- Nazism and anti-Semitism.
12 Jan.
Soviet police expose a black-market rock 'n' roll ring that produces phonograph records on X-ray plates.
19 Jan.
The United States and Japan sign a treaty of mutual cooperation and security.
24 Jan.
Pope John XXIII presides over the first diocesan ecclesiastical council held in Rome.
1 Feb.
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