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Southern Sens led by Ervin seek to weaken voting referee plan in bill
bill for 12 new justices, NYC, dropped as Gov Rockefeller refuses to send Legis emergency message to permit consideration after Sen Mahoney objections raise number to 13; various deals to win approval of original bill noted
Most students at Southern U boycott classes, some 4,000 ask withdrawal forms to protest expulsion of 18 who participated in sitdowns and other demonstrations, Baton Rouge; illus; Dr Wilkerson discharged from Bishop Coll, Marshall; student demonstration quelled; Gov Daniel asks probe of possible Communist influence; Wilkerson once party member; 27 Negro students convicted in Orangeburg demonstration, 10 held in Birmingham; Prof Nesmith and wife held with 11 white students from MacMurray Coll and 7 Negroes at Negro restaurant, Montgomery
WASHINGTON, March 31 -- The Census Bureau's temporary army of 160,000 enumerators will fan out across the land at daybreak tomorrow to count 179,921,434 persons.
state of emergency rules pub; Union under virtual martial law; arrests at 300; Opposition votes with Govt to outlaw African Natl Cong and Pan-Africanist Cong; troops surround African t wps near Capetown; sale of firearms to whites reptd brisk, Johannesburg; map
1960The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.[†]
Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (TIROS) is a series of early weather satellites launched by the United States, beginning with TIROS-1 in 1960. TIROS was the first satellite that was capable of remote sensing of the Earth, enabling scientists to view the Earth from a new perspective: space. The program, promoted by Harry Wexler, proved the usefulness of satellite weather observation, at a time when military reconnaissance satellites were secretly in development or use. TIROS demonstrated at that time that "the key to genius is often simplicity". TIROS is an acronym of "Television InfraRed Observation Satellite" and is also the plural of "tiro" which means "a young soldier, a beginner".
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]