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Nixon-Kennedy TV debate; Nixon denies 'trigger-happy' charge, cites record of wars under Dem Adms; Kennedy cites other Nixon stands in effort to break his grip on peace issue
Pittsburgh wins 7th game and champ, 10-9, on W Mazeroski 9th-inning home run to give club 1st world champ since '25
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo, Oct. 13 -- Col. Joseph D. Mobutu denied today that his military regime intended to make ''war on the United Nations."
Nixon 'shocked' that Kennedy used 'notes'; sees rules violation; Salinger says there were no rules on notes; says Kennedy had Eisenhower lr and wanted to quote him accurately; ABC, host network, issues statement; Klein says Nixon camp will insist on accord before next debate; comments on 3d debate outcome; studio set ups noted
Sec Home sets tougher stand toward USSR; policy outlined before Conservative party conf
1960Steve Cram, English runner and coach[â ]
Stephen Cram, is a British retired track and field athlete. Along with fellow Britons Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, he was one of the world's dominant middle-distance runners during the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Jarrow Arrow", after his home town, Cram set world records in the 1,500 m, 2,000 m, and the mile during a 19-day period in the summer of 1985. He was the first man to run 1,500 m under 3 minutes and 30 seconds. He won the 1,500 m gold medal at the 1983 World Championships and the 1,500 m silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games.
1960Zbigniew KruszyĆski, Polish footballer and coach[â ]
Zbigniew KruszyĆski, commonly known as Detsi KruszyĆski or Detzi KruszyĆski, is a Polish-German former professional footballer.
1960Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (born 1880)[â ]
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe was a prominent Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955). Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics, many of which became independent institutes.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[â ]