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Rockefeller rejects Wagner request; Wagner to order Elections Bd to add 2 days to period at $400,000 cost; confs with Hollander, Van Arsdale, other labor leaders on regis problems; discusses plans to increase regis
US forbids foreign nations to buy Cuban sugar with US loans; links 'difficulty of doing business with Cuba'; amends authorization for Morocco to buy $10 million worth; ICA repts purchases with US loans authorized July '59-Mar '60 totaled $22 million
8 dead in Aug 3 fire at USSR Mirny base; meteorology bldg destroyed; delay in rept unexplained; base described; map; accidents among other expeditions since '56 revd
3.47-in rain, record for date; effects; illus
1960Dom Duff, Breton singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer[†]
Dominique Le Duff is a Breton singer-songwriter.
1960Mark Langston, American baseball player[†]
Mark Edward Langston is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitched for the Seattle Mariners (1984–1989), Montreal Expos (1989), California / Anaheim Angels (1990–1997), San Diego Padres (1998), and Cleveland Indians (1999). During a 16-year baseball career, Langston compiled 179 wins, 2,464 strikeouts, and a 3.97 earned run average (ERA).
1960Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.[†]
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. It also shares a maritime border with Cape Verde. Senegal's capital is Dakar.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]