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dismissed as Algiers area mil and civil comdr in policy dispute with Pres de Gaulle
up 0.10%, Dec, to record 124.2, 4th consecutive record; '59 NYC costs rose faster than in US as whole
probe spreads to Bronx and Queens; Bklyn police seize records of 6 dealers; illus; grand jury questions 6 dealers, Lowenstein and Schneider; Queens police raid 2 cos; with Nassau County police, seize Triangle Utilities records; Silver names 15 Bklyn dealers who got summonses; NY Oil Heating Assn thanks him for releasing names; LI Oil Heating Inst charges Kaplan harms indus by calling racket prevalent
Frank atty disputes bomb theory
Speaker Carlino, after conf with Nassau legislators, outlines program for $75 million more; sees budget surplus and higher tax yield as possible sources
1960Greg Ritchie, Australian cricketer[†]
Gregory Michael Ritchie is a former Australian international cricketer who played in 30 Tests matches and 44 One Day Internationals between 1982 and 1987.
1960The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.[†]
A bathyscaphe is a free-diving, self-propelled deep-sea submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a Bathysphere, but suspended below a float rather than from a surface cable, as in the classic Bathysphere design.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]