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Legis Council approves law to bar racial curbs in many pub places; Gov Home comments
LIRR resumes service after Fed mediator intervenes to avert new tie-up; gets rr to pledge no reprisals against engineer who refused to operate maintenance train; BLE and BLFE win 5-day wk; Goodfellow says rr agreed reluctantly to no-reprisals pledge
US to pay $1 million for infringing on rocket patents of late Or R H Goddard to D and F Guggenheim Foundation; Goddard had assigned patents to Foundation in return for its aid; Foundation and Mrs Goddard filed claim in '51; Goddard's pioneering work, ridicule of him as 'moon-mad' recalled
Bunche in Elisabethville; map; confs with Tshombe; Tshombe says Bunche agreed to postpone, possibly abandon UN intervention; Bunche denial; Tshombe cites Katanga's declaration of independence before adoption of Security Council resolution in rejecting intervention; rejects Hammarskjold clarification; Elisabethville calm
Kennedy names Gov Loveless top campaign farm adviser; directs him to prepare sweeping program of changes; sets 12-state Midwest agr conf in Des Moines on Aug 21
1960David Baldacci, American lawyer and author[†]
David Baldacci is an American novelist. An attorney by education, Baldacci writes mainly suspense novels and legal thrillers. His novels are published in over 45 languages and published in over 80 countries, having sold over 130 million copies worldwide.
1960Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1874)[†]
Arthur Meighen was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Canada from 1920 to 1921 and from June to September 1926. He led the Conservative Party from 1920 to 1926 and from 1941 to 1942.
1960Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.[†]
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2. In 2024, the country had an estimated population of approximately 23,286,000. Previously called the Republic of Upper Volta (1958–1984), it was renamed Burkina Faso by then-president Thomas Sankara. Its citizens are known as Burkinabes, and its capital and largest city is Ouagadougou.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]