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Fed jury, Miami, finds E P Green died of lung cancer because he smoked cigarettes but rejects holding mfr liable; Amer Tobacco Co pres Dowden comments
BONN, Germany, Aug. 2 -- Chancellor Adenauer and President de Gaulle of France are agreed that a reform of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Alliance is demanded.
M Koblenz freed from Passaic County Jail where held 100 days as result of clerical error while awaiting grand jury hearing; M Bebe held 2 wks after receiving suspended sentence because warden was not notified
NY Central, NH&H commuter service delayed after car plunges off Tremont Av bridge to tracks, Bronx; illus
USSR Embassy repts vias approved for Powers wife, mother and 3 others
1960Tim Mayotte, American tennis player and coach[†]
Timothy Mayotte is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Mayotte won twelve singles titles during his career.
1960Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer[†]
Gopal Sharma is a former Indian cricketer who played in five Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals from 1985 to 1990. He was an off-spinner but was overshadowed by the spinners of the day for a place in the international squad – Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Maninder Singh, Arshad Ayub, Shivlal Yadav, Ravi Shastri and Narendra Hirwani.
1960Niger gains independence from France.[†]
Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the north-east, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin and Burkina Faso to the south-west, Mali to the west, and Algeria to the north-west. It covers a land area of almost 1.27 million km2 (490,000 sq mi), making it the largest landlocked country in West Africa and the second-largest landlocked nation in Africa behind Chad. Over 80% of its land area lies in the Sahara. Its predominantly Muslim population of about 25 million lives mostly in clusters in the south and west of the country. The capital Niamey is located in Niger's south-west corner along the namesake Niger River.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]