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IT is worthy of critical notice that whenever Carol Reed and Graham Greene have got together to make a motion picture it has resulted in something extra good. First teamed on "The Fallen Idol." they turned out a crisply urbane film that crackled with dramatic excitement and some tenderly touching ironies.
Ford Motor Co: 6 factory workers held in theft of $100,000 worth of auto parts from Mahwah plant in last 2 yrs
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CIA Deputy Dir Cabell stresses US vulnerability as reason for Communist drive in Latin Amer, Nov 5 testimony to Sen Internal Security subcom; repts Communist strategy is based on 'natl liberation struggle,' with front orgns infiltrating many fields; cites apparently Communist role of Prensa Latina news agency in Havana
27 French Deputies from Algeria urge all Eur males in Algeria be mobilized to fight rebels
1960Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist and author[†]
Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist, writer and a former member of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political dissident", and a "wildly popular pro-democracy journalist" who has crossed press censorship "red lines" regularly. A supporter of the Islamic revolution as a youth, he became disenchanted in the mid-1990s and served time in Tehran's Evin Prison from 2001 to 2006, after publishing a series of stories on the murder of dissident authors known as the Chain Murders of Iran. While in prison, he issued a manifesto which established him as the first "prominent dissident, believing Muslim and former revolutionary" to call for a replacement of Iran's theocratic system with "a democracy". He has been described as "Iran's best-known political prisoner".
1960Grant Morrison, Scottish author and screenwriter[†]
Grant Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer, screenwriter, and producer. Their work is known for its nonlinear narratives, humanist philosophy and countercultural leanings. Morrison has written extensively for the American comic book publisher DC Comics, penning lengthy runs on Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, Action Comics, and Green Lantern as well as the graphic novels Arkham Asylum, JLA: Earth 2, and Wonder Woman: Earth One, the meta-series Seven Soldiers and The Multiversity, the mini-series DC One Million and Final Crisis, both of which served as centrepieces for the eponymous company-wide crossover storylines, and the maxi-series All-Star Superman. Morrison's best known DC work is the seven-year Batman storyline which started in the Batman ongoing series and continued through Final Crisis, Batman and Robin, Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne and two volumes of Batman Incorporated. They also co-created the DC character Damian Wayne.
1960Željko Šturanović, Montenegrin politician, 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (died 2014)[†]
Željko Šturanović was a Montenegrin politician who was the Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2006 until his resignation in 2008.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]