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J H Carmical article on oil mkts in Western Hemisphere
And Western Troubles The tensions in East-West relations eased last week, but there were disturbing outbreaks of political discontent at key points in the Western system of alliances.
A rehabilitation program in Chelsea that began as a blockby-block clean-up campaign a few years ago has reached block-busting proportions.
The split-level method of construction used in housing is being applied to a bowling center now rising on a site near the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn.
MODESTO, Calif., May 28 -- Jim Beatty, a former University of North Carolina runner, shattered the American record in the mile tonight, beating Dyrol Burleson of Oregon in 3 minutes 58 seconds.
1960Thomas Baumer, Swiss economist and academic[†]
Thomas Baumer (born 1960 in Fribourg is a Swiss economist and expert for Intercultural competence and Personality assessment. He developed parts of the prognostic personality and abilities assessment and coined this term especially within the German speaking countries.
1960Mike Freer, English politician[†]
Michael Whitney Freer is a British Conservative Party politician and former banker who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Courts and Legal Services from September 2022 to July 2024. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Finchley and Golders Green at the 2010 general election, and stood down in 2024.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]