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arrangements com names Repr Bowles Platform Com chmn, P B Perlman vice chmn; names C F Gravel Jr and C Rawlings credentials com co-chmn; Butler comments; com names Repr Cannon parliamentarian
Draft charter offered
Comr Kennedy to probe possibility of forgery in records on applicants for cabaret licenses
urges sweeping changes in application of apartheid, s, Humansdorp; says Mar 21 riot closed 'old book'; urges easing enforcement of pass and liquor laws, higher wages for urban Africans; Louw comments; holds only Verwoerd can change basic policy; blames world anger on foreign press distortion; Nationalist party seen split over issue
NYS Educ Dept directs Grad Educ School to overhaul doctoral program, Assoc Comr Kille lr to pres Belkin; sees insufficiency of qualified faculty members, finds candidates work inadequately supervised; state, in unusual move, requires records of all candidates for doctorates be submitted for exam; asks progress rept by July; no student or grad will be licensed for post in NYS ps system pending evaluation of transcripts; Belkin denies moves constitute 'crackdown'; defends standards and operations; Dean Fine resigns; says Dr Lieberman's '58 'complaint' of improper practices spurred probe
1960Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.[†]
Brasília is the capital of Brazil and Federal District. Located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region, it was founded by President Juscelino Kubitschek on 21 April 1960, to replace Rio de Janeiro as the national capital. Brasília is Brazil's third-most populous city after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with a population of 2.8 million. Among major Latin American cities, it has the highest GDP per capita.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]