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Eisenhower sends message to Cong asking end of interest-rate ceiling; also submits draft bill; speculation
13-nation conf opens, Paris; Min Luns elected chmn; Dillon offers resolution urging US link with W Eur for econ cooperation; proposes group of 'wise men' to study formation of orgn to supercede OEEC; backs forming small interim group
Wagner calls conf of 60 top aides and warns them that any employe failing to give full day's work will be ousted; denies meeting is unusual; pol implications seen
US-USSR-Brit conf on nuclear tests ban resumes, Geneva; Wadsworth, Brit repr Sir Michael Wright resent Tsarapkin statement that US stand on underground tests detection is politically motivated nonsense; US and GB study pact for phased ban, leaving underground detection issue for further study
lr to Gov Rockefeller proposing long-rgnge program to give NYC $250 million in new revenues
1960Kevin Anderson, American actor[†]
Kevin Anderson is an American stage and film actor, singer and drummer.
1960Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Robert Eric Betzig is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia.
1960Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director[†]
Sir Matthew Christopher Bourne is a British choreographer. His productions contain many classic cinema and popular culture references and draw thematic inspiration from musicals, film noir and popular culture.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]