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fury of USSR attacks on Hammarskjold over Congo issue raises doubt that he will remain acceptable to USSR as Sec Gen; tenure discussed
Nixon to drop traditional consecutive-days tours through 1 state and substitute 1-day forays; other plans
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Pope appeals for peace, radio s to World Eucharistic Cong, Munich
City Admr Fitch repts waste and inefficiency in Dept which buys over $75 million in supplies annually for 100 agencies and depts, rept to Wagner; complaints include purchase of inferior goods, disregard of agencies protests on repairs and maintenance costs, failure to press contracts fulfillment; failure to revise specifications, inadequate stores and delivery system; recommendations
1960Mustafa Balbay, Turkish journalist and politician[†]
Mustafa Ali Balbay is a journalist, writer and former Turkish MP. As the main political correspondent in Ankara for the left-wing Kemalist daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, he wrote a regular column called Gözlem which he took over from the prominent investigative journalist Ugur Mumcu, who was assassinated in 1993. Balbay was arrested on March 5, 2009 as an Ergenekon suspect in the Odatv case, and in August 2009 he was sentenced to 34 years and eight months.
1960Ulrich Maly, German politician, 16th Mayor of Nuremberg[†]
Dr. Ulrich Maly is a German politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany who served as Mayor of Nuremberg from 2002 till 2020.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]