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summons rise continues; Wagner comments; Kennedy exec sec Coulson and Repr Teller get tickets
Statement saying US will take whatever steps appropriate to defend Guantanamo Naval base; text
ICC agrees to guarantee $4.5-million loan to NY,NH&H; state and local govts pledge tax help; ICC will weigh additional $1.5-million loan; Alpert hails prompt action; holds it will stave off bankruptcy
Comr Kaplan repts evidence FHA NY dir J Nardone accepted free elec and carpentry work in Bronx home by project sponsor B Axelrod; probe began after Controller's office became suspicious of bill for elec work from Kritz Elec Co, contractors for Axelrod at project
NYC Planning Comm repts difficulties in meeting $22-million yrly commitments to Interstate Sanitation Comm for pollution control under present financing methods, capital budget message
1960Rosalyn Fairbank, South African tennis player[†]
Rosalyn Doris Fairbank-Nideffer is a retired professional tennis player from South Africa. She played her first grand slam in 1979, with her last appearance in 1997. She won a WTA Tour singles event in Richmond in 1983 and numerous doubles titles, with the highlight being her Grand Slam titles at the 1981 French Open with Tanya Harford and 1983 with Candy Reynolds. She won 317 singles and 472 doubles matches on the tour during her career. Later on in her career she married her American sports-psychologist Bob Nideffer, and changed her nationality to compete for the United States.
1960Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (born 1896)[†]
Dimitri Mitropoulos was a Greek and American conductor, pianist, and composer.
1960Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.[†]
Penguin Books Limited is a German-owned English publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers the Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. Its success showed that large audiences existed for several books. It also affected modern British popular culture significantly through its books concerning politics, the arts, and science.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]