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Newport City Council, 4-3, votes to cancel performances; Festival sponsors blame city unpreparedness for riot, threaten suit; riot described; illus
'59-60 term revd; Ct heard record 2,178 cases, disposed of record 1,822; Justices Clark and Stewart held balance of power most often on close decisions; major decisions summarized
Housing Auth ex-aide 8 Roshco charges Auth secretly adopted program to spur integration of pub housing which discriminates against Negroes and Puerto Ricans; says program in effect gives priority to whites in 1/3 of pub housing, puts pressure on Negroes and Puerto Ricans to seek higher-rent housing in outlying parts of city; explains 75 of city's 90 pub projects classified into 'phases' for integration purposes; Auth chmn Reid, vice chmn Robbins deny discrimination; Robbins says program was not made pub because 'it might be misunderstood,'
wind, rain and thunderstorm cause wide damage
Re-elected
1960Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (died 1994)[†]
Roland Walter Ratzenberger was an Austrian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at three Grands Prix in 1994.
1960Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).[†]
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons restricted by certain types of court orders.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]