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TV int on rivals entering primaries, on offering Vice Pres post to RC, on birth control, foreign aid, personal finances; TV int by Mrs Roosevelt on NATO
Khrushchev pledges USSR will not make tests unless West does, int with Argentine newsman R J Noble
Reston repts effort under way to get H S Truman to back Johnson, that Speaker Rayburn has discussed move with him; repts D Acheson backs it; notes Truman opposes Stevenson and Kennedy and gen belief he backs Symington; says mjaor opposition to Johnson is among Northern urban leaders; repts Dems close to Truman urge him to back ticket of Johnson and Gov Brown, a Cath, especially since Kennedy bars Vice Pres; sees move effort to form Rayburn-Truman coalition against younger supporters of Stevenson, Kennedy or Humphrey
concert, NYC, 1st ever by a Soviet orch in US; K Ivanov conducts; E Gilels soloist; performance widely hailed
Legis session set; Gov Rockefeller, Repub leaders plans to spur session noted; major issues
1960Gavin Miller, Australian rugby league player[†]
Gavin John Miller is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative forward, he played the majority of his club football for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, and is an Immortal of the club. He earned two successive Dally M Player of the Year awards in 1988 and 1989.
1960Michael Stipe, American singer-songwriter and producer[†]
John Michael Stipe is an American singer, songwriter and artist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.
1960Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)[†]
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]