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Deputy Controller L Cohn repts his Dept has withheld close to $150,000 in payments; Gerosa scores Stanton failure to check weights of shipments
Comr Moses warns of traffic strangulation unless arterial hwy program continues, qrly rept; cites population and vehicle regis rise; comments on various projects
Adjournment drive begins
Internatl Jurists Comm repts study by com set up in '59 says Chinese Communists are guilty of attempting genocide of Buddhism, of carrying on widespread killings unrelated to mil action in uprising; says Tibetan children have been forcibly transferred to China; says there has been violation of Tibetans soc and econ rights; com members named
Repr Buckley to urge Kennedy endorsement at NYS delegation caucus; stresses need to take stand; reptd backed by Sharkey; Kennedy seen assured of 90-100 of NYS 114 votes; party leaders seen trying to avoid bossism charge
1960Philip M. Parker, American economist and author[†]
Philip M. Parker is an American economist and academic, currently the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has patented a method to automatically produce a set of similar books from a template that is filled with data from databases and Internet searches. He claims that his programs have written more than 200,000 books.
1960John Taylor, English bass player and actor[†]
Nigel John Taylor is a British musician who is best known as the bass guitarist for new wave band Duran Duran, of which he was a founding member. Duran Duran was one of the most popular bands in the world during the 1980s due in part to their music videos which played in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV. Taylor played with Duran Duran from its founding in 1978 until 1997, when he left to pursue a solo recording and film career. He recorded a dozen solo releases through his private record label B5 Records over the next four years, had a lead role in the movie Sugar Town, and made appearances in a half dozen other film projects. He rejoined Duran Duran for a reunion of the original five members in 2001 and has remained with the group since.
1960The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).[†]
The Mali Federation was a federation in West Africa linking the French colonies of Senegal and the Sudanese Republic for two months in 1960. It was founded on 4 April 1959 as a territory with self-rule within the French Community and became independent after negotiations with France on 20 June 1960. Two months later, on 19 August 1960, the Sudanese Republic leaders in the Mali Federation mobilized the army, and Senegal leaders in the federation retaliated by mobilizing the gendarmerie ; this resulted in a tense stand-off, and led to the withdrawal from the federation by Senegal the next day. The Sudanese Republic officials resisted this dissolution, cut off diplomatic relations with Senegal, and defiantly changed the name of their country to Mali. For the brief existence of the Mali Federation, the premier was Modibo Keïta, who would later become the first President of Mali, and its government was based in Dakar, the eventual capital of Senegal.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]