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Western conferees, Paris, agree on common plan heightening study priority for nuclear disarmament; present plan to NATO
Sen 53,42, defeats closure on civil rights debate for 9th time in Sen history
$20 million of scarce foreign exch reptd spent for arms, '59; effects of reserves depletion discussed
Legis rejects bill, ends session
Electronic personnel selector system used to summon Chinese-speaking ptl B Eng in hosp emergency
1960Warwick Taylor, New Zealand rugby player[†]
Warwick Thomas Taylor is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He won 24 caps for the All Blacks between 1983 and 1988 and played in the victorious New Zealand team at the 1987 Rugby World Cup.
1960Roy Chapman Andrews, American paleontologist and explorer (born 1884)[†]
Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer, adventurer, and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He led a series of expeditions through the politically disturbed China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum. Chapman's popular writing about his adventures made him famous.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]