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HR subcom gets staff rept assailing NY Port Auth attitude and policies on commuter crisis; Auth dir Tobin testifies that current talks will bring solution in 6-12 mos; details Auth plans
Ydigoras assails Castro alleged role in recent revolt, lr to Eisenhower thanking him for USN patrol
Lovett reptdly was offered 3 Cabinet posts
Repubs conf on party course; liberals unhappy over Halleck statement; Scott scores 'bloc manipulation'; sees Kennedy entitled to Repub support; lauds Martin protest against Repub-Southern Dem coalition for obstructionist purposes
1960Daryl Hannah, American actress and producer[†]
Daryl Hannah is an American actress and environmental activist. She made her film debut in Brian De Palma's supernatural horror film The Fury (1978). She has starred in various films across the years, including as Pris Stratton in Ridley Scott's science fiction thriller Blade Runner (1982) and as Cathy Featherstone in Randal Kleiser's romantic comedy Summer Lovers (1982), as the mermaid Madison in Ron Howard's fantasy-romantic comedy Splash (1984), Roxanne Kowalski in the romantic comedy Roxanne (1987), Darien Taylor in Oliver Stone's drama Wall Street (1987), and Annelle Dupuy Desoto in the comedy-drama Steel Magnolias (1989). In 2005, Hannah won a Saturn Award for her role as one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Quentin Tarantino's martial arts action film Kill Bill: Vol. 2. In 2015, she appeared in the Netflix series Sense8 as Angelica Turing.
1960Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player[†]
Igor Nikolayevich Larionov is a Russian ice hockey coach, sports agent and former professional ice hockey player, known as "the Professor". Considered one of the best hockey players of all time, he, along with Viacheslav Fetisov, were instrumental in forcing the Soviet government to let Soviet players compete in the National Hockey League (NHL). During his career, which lasted from 1977 to 2006, he primarily played the centre position.
1960Julianne Moore, American actress and author[†]
Julie Anne Smith, known professionally as Julianne Moore, is an American actress and children's author. Prolific in film since the early 1990s, she is known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in independent films, and for her roles in blockbusters. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards as well as Best Actress Prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and Venice Film Festival. In 2015, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2020, The New York Times named her one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
1960Mike Ramsey, American ice hockey player and coach[†]
Michael Allen Ramsey is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 1,070 regular season games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Detroit Red Wings between 1980 and 1997, after helping the United States men's national ice hockey team win the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
1960The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.[†]
Camelot is a musical with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics and a book by Alan Jay Lerner. It is based on the legend of King Arthur as adapted from the 1958 novel The Once and Future King by T. H. White.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]