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Louisiana Dem Central Com, 51-49, defeats unpledged electors move; Davis not to bolt party but bars backing ticket
NYS Supt Thacher approves penalty premium charges up to 100% for 'bad risks' in Assigned Risk Plan; says costs to those with minor violations will be cut; other revisions will protect motorists from penalty charges if involved in certain types of accidents, give bonus credit to ins cos to encourage voluntary underwriting, limit brokers comms on assigned risk business to 10% on basic premium, revise eligibility rules and require repts to Motor Vehicles Bur on 'really bad risks' in effort to revoke licenses; other data
instrument capsule recovered undamaged off Hawaii in 1st successful retrieve by USAF since project's inception; ejected from satellite 29 hrs, 17 circuits after launching, slowed down by retrorocket, then parachuted into ocean; planes unable to snag capsule in midair because of clouds but track it for recovery by helicopter; Lt Gen Schreiver sees feat speeding development of reconnaissance satellites and manned flight; ejection, re-entry and recovery sequence described; satellite launched by Thor-Agena rocket; capsule mfrd by GE under Lockheed subcontract; heat shield is ablating type; orbit and re-entry diagram
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Hammarskjold returns to Leopoldville; stops on way to conf with Nkrumah, Accra
1960Laurent Fignon, French cyclist and sportscaster (died 2010)[†]
Laurent Patrick Fignon was a French professional road bicycle racer who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984, as well as the Giro d'Italia in 1989. He held the title of FICP World No. 1 in 1989. Fignon came close to winning the Tour de France for a third time in 1989 but was narrowly defeated by Greg LeMond by 8 seconds, marking the closest margin ever to decide the Tour. Fignon won many classic races, including consecutive victories in Milan–San Remo in 1988 and 1989. He died from cancer in 2010.
1960Greg Thomas, Welsh-English cricketer[†]
Greg Thomas is a Welsh former cricketer, who played in five Test matches and three One Day Internationals for England between 1986 and 1987.
1960Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.[†]
Project Echo was the first passive communications satellite experiment. Each of the two American spacecraft, launched in 1960 and 1964, were metalized balloon satellites acting as passive reflectors of microwave signals. Communication signals were transmitted from one location on Earth and bounced off the surface of the satellite to another Earth location.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]