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Despite the billions of dollars being poured into agriculture by the Federal Government, the economic situation of the nation's farmers continues to worsen. With production costs rising and prices for farm products declining, the producers of the country's food and fiber are finding it increasingly difficult to operate profitably.
With the green light of the Interstate Commerce Commission apparently switched on, mergers are occupying the attention of the railroads to a greater extent than at any time since the Nineteen Twenties.
interracial dinner, San Antonio, Tex, caps wk during which 5 stores, including Woolworth and Kress, open to all; dinner sponsored by Bapt and Meth Chs; J Robinson s; roles of Rev C D Baugh, M L Andrews in pressing stores to desegregate counters cited; northern coll students orgn of demonstrations and protests described; Woolworth most frequent target; Natl Student Assn among groups acting as clearing houses
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 19 -- George Bayer of Gleneagles, Ill., and Lionel Hebert of Lafayette, La., each carded a six-under-par 66 today and shared the lead after the first round of the $15,000 St. Petersburg open golf tournament.
PRODUCERS (alias alchemists) Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince, who have merchandized gold manufactured from a pajama factory strike ("The Pajama Game"), baseball ("Damn Yankees") and politics ("Fiorello!"), now have turned their eyes on the credit-card industry.
1960Norm Magnusson, American painter and sculptor[â ]
Norm Magnusson is a New York-based artist and political activist and founder, in 1991, of the art movement funism; he began his career creating allegorical animal paintings with pointed social commentaries. Eventually became more and more interested in political art and its potential for persuasion.
1960Norbert Pohlmann, German computer scientist and academic[â ]
Norbert Pohlmann is a computer scientist and a professor at the Westfälische Hochschule. He is also chairman of the board of the IT security association TeleTrusT.
1960Yuri Shargin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut[â ]
Yuri Georgiyevich Shargin is a retired cosmonaut of the Russian Space Forces.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[â ]