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F L Bird study for Pub Adm Service finds many property owners overtaxed because most communities lack uniform assessing formulas; study based on '56 Census Bur data; sees higher-priced homes assessed lower than low-priced ones; holds 27 states lack 'modest' standard of uniformity; finds 3/4 of states require 100% assessments but avg is 30% of mkt value; other findings
Verwoerd talks with Min Sauer for 1 hr; attends to increasing amt of Govt business
EUGENE, Ore., April 23 -- Dyrol Burleson of Oregon summoned a final burst of speed and ran the mile in 3:58.6 today, the fastest ever run by an American.
1960Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)[†]
Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals".
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]