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Mitchell sues to invalidate election of NMU officers, 1st major test of '59 Labor Reform Law election provisions; J Curran scores Law, s, NMU
King Hussein reaffirms Jordan ties with West, UN Assembly
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, which is in a precarious financial position, has applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a Government-guaranteed loan of $6,000,000 to be used as working capital.
M Rosal, Guatemalan Amb to Belgium and Netherlands, and 3 others held, NYC, on charge of conspiring to smuggle $3.5 million worth of heroin into US; held in $1-million bail; 110 lbs of heroin seized
Jackson charges Nixon seeks to 'impute disloyalty or lack of patriotism' to Kennedy by suggesting criticism is improper during Khrushchev stay in US; notes much of pub backs Kennedy view that criticism is necessary
1960Joe Boever, American baseball player[†]
Joseph Martin Boever is an American former professional baseball right-handed relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1985 to 1996 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, and Pittsburgh Pirates.
1960Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer (died 2016)[†]
Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Edward Henry Worsley, was a British explorer and British Army officer. He was part of a 2009 expedition that retraced Ernest Shackleton's footsteps in the Antarctic.
1960An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.[†]
Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, registration N5533, was a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft that crashed on takeoff from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 4, 1960. Ten survived, nine with serious injuries, but 62 of 72 on board were killed in the accident.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]