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To interests favoring a minimum amount of speculative activity in the market for United States Government securities, the coming refunding of $6,400,000,000 of Treasury debt due on May 15 should be a red-letter affair.
THE Civil Aeronautics Board last Wednesday announced its acceptance, although with a mild degree of gentle reluctance, of the new international air fares that had for some weeks been scheduled to become effective at 12:01 A.M. today.
Mobil Internatl opens refinery, El Palito
NYS bill signed to set up central tenant relocation system
NOW there's no doubt about it. Alec Guinness stands in clear peril of losing his eminent position as Britain's most distinguished film comedian.
1960Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (born 1875)[†]
Charles Henry Holden was an English architect best known for designing many London Underground stations during the 1920s and 1930s, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London's headquarters at 55 Broadway, for the University of London's Senate House and for Bristol Central Library. He created many war cemeteries in Belgium and northern France for the Imperial War Graves Commission.
1960Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]