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Buyer's mkt seen developing in resale homes but prices remain firm
NY Times (R E Mooney) survey of economists and pol leaders on possible effect of unemployment rise on Pres election; most agree that significant rise would influence vote though employment is at record high
Last March a remodeled build-building on East Eighty-fourth Street filled its apartments rapidly, renting one-and-a-half room studios for $105, two rooms for $120, and offering most of the extra features that tenants expect to find in an expensive new building.
There are fashions in theories as in almost everything else, and talk about inflation is not popular among economists these days. Furthermore, it is a subject that may receive no more than a few cursory remarks by the politicians from now until election day.
Spur to investment in home mortgages by realty investment trusts seen in sec of new tax law exempting trusts from corp income taxes if they distribute at least 90% of their profits to investors
1960Stephen Flaherty, American composer[†]
Stephen Flaherty is an American composer of musical theatre and film. He works most often in collaboration with the lyricist/book writer Lynn Ahrens. They are best known for writing the Broadway musicals Ragtime, which was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and won the Tony for Best Original Score; Once on This Island, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, the Olivier Award for London's Best Musical, and was nominated for a Grammy Award and eight Tony Awards; and Seussical, which was nominated for the Grammy Award. Flaherty was also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for his songs and song score for the animated film musical Anastasia.
1960Carolyn Harris, British politician[†]
Carolyn Harris is a Welsh politician serving as Deputy Leader of Welsh Labour since 2018. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Neath and Swansea East, previously Swansea East since 2015.
1960Ian Lucas, English lawyer and politician[†]
Ian Colin Lucas is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wrexham, Wales from 2001 to 2019. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Business and Regulatory Reform in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2009 until Labour's defeat at the 2010 General Election.
1960Blue Panther, Mexican wrestler[†]
Genaro Vázquez Nevarez is a Mexican professional wrestler and trainer, best known under his ring name Blue Panther. He made his in-ring debut in 1978. Since then, he has worked for most major Mexican professional wrestling promotions, including the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración (AAA). He was one of the first wrestlers to leave CMLL for AAA when it was created in 1992, but returned to CMLL in 1997 where he has competed ever since.
1960Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.[†]
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]