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Govt warns Africans who strike will lose jobs, be banished to reserves; police to protect non-strikers
The weather followed the calendar's instructions last week, and consumers turned out in force to catch up on shopping for today's Easter parade.
Residents of Manhattan's first middle-income housing development are financing a mortgage on their homes by floating a bond issue.
Talent Show ran a record-breaking mile in taking the $29,300 Excelsior Handicap at Aqueduct yesterday. The 5-year-old owned by Mrs. Ada L. Rice spurted on the outside and won by a length and a quarter in 1:34 4/5.
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1960Vladimir Polyakov, Russian pole vaulter[†]
Vladimir Polyakov is a retired Soviet pole vaulter who represented the Soviet Union and later Russia. On 26 June 1981 he managed to clear 5.81 metres, beating Thierry Vigneron's six-day-old world record. Two years later Polyakov lost the record to Pierre Quinon, who jumped 5.82. Polyakov won a silver medal at the 1982 European Championships, and won the European Indoor Championships in 1983.
1960Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1938)[†]
Ray Edward Cochran was an American rock and roll musician. His songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. Cochran experimented with multitrack recording, distortion techniques, and overdubbing, even on his earliest singles. Cochran played the guitar, piano, bass, and drums. His image as a sharply dressed and attractive young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 1950s rocker, and in death, Cochran achieved iconic status.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]