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Vice Pres offers 7-pt housing program
police round up some 3,500 tribesmen, rept 8 persons dead, over 80 hurt; deny larger figures reptd in press; violence underlines problems Nigeria must face with 250 tribal and language groups; S Nigerians leaving Northern Region
PORS AND ILLUS
Assembly com, 13-4, rejects USSR move to transfer disarmament debate from Pol-Security Com to Assembly in order to give Khrushchev forum; USSR wants disarmament debate to start before gen debate ends; speculation on proposal to raise 10-nation com membership to 15
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson painted a bullish picture of the national economy today.
1960Steve Burke, English footballer[†]
Steven James Burke is an English former footballer who played 156 games in the Football League. He played as a winger.
1960Rob Deer, American baseball player[†]
Robert George Deer is an American former professional baseball outfielder.
1960John Paxson, American basketball player and executive[†]
John MacBeth Paxson is an American basketball administrator and former player who was vice president of basketball operations for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2009 to 2020. He was their general manager from 2003 to 2009. Paxson played eleven NBA seasons for the San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls, winning three championships as a member of the Bulls. He was an All-American college player at the University of Notre Dame.
1960John Baillie, Scottish theologian (born 1886)[†]
John Baillie was a Scottish theologian, a Church of Scotland minister and brother of theologian Donald Macpherson Baillie.
1960Vladimir Dimitrov, Bulgarian artist (born 1882)[†]
Vladimir "the Master/Maystora" Dimitrov Poppetrov, was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era.
1960John Goodwin, British soldier and medical practitioner, 14th Governor of Queensland (born 1871)[†]
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin, known as Sir John Goodwin, was a British soldier and medical practitioner, who served as the Governor of Queensland from 1927 to 1932.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]