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article on Chicago host com efforts to raise $400,000 it pledged to party; party puts conv cost at $525,000; remaining $125,000 to be raised by souvenir program; orgn plans
decides that full comm will handle fiscal program
conv seen helping pay off '56 Pres election $175,000 debt; Los Angeles host com has already paid $300,000 of $450,000 contract; ticket sales, other fund-raising devices, other conv plans described
Investigation Comm urges stricter police enforcement, heavier ct penalties, rept on probe; other recommendations
Prof Isakov holds Pres Eisenhower prestige stems from propaganda depicting him as 'unsurpassed mil genius,' article in Izvestia
1960Linden Ashby, American actor[†]
Clarence Linden Garnett Ashby III is an American actor. On television, he portrayed Brett Cooper on the final two seasons of the Fox soap opera Melrose Place (1997–1999) and Sheriff Noah Stilinski on all six seasons of the MTV supernatural drama Teen Wolf (2011–2017). He is also known for portraying Johnny Cage in the 1995 film Mortal Kombat, an adaptation of the video game franchise of the same name.
1960Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (born 1870)[†]
Georges Claude was a French engineer and inventor. He is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths. He has been considered by some to be "the Edison of France". The Claude process for manufacturing ammonia was named for him.
1960A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.[†]
A tsunami is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and underwater explosions above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. Unlike normal ocean waves, which are generated by wind, or tides, which are in turn generated by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun, a tsunami is generated by the displacement of water from a large event.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]