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US Sup Ct unanimously denies La application for stay; deems devices to block desegregation legally worthless; Bd to appeal; all but 4 of 38 teachers at 2 desegregated pss and principals rept for work despite offer by Legis to resume paying salaries if they quit
Snow drifts up to ten feet high, intense cold and forty-mile winds immobilized central and northern New Jersey yesterday in one of the worst storms within memory.
Sec Herter leaves US
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 12 -- Morocco and Guinea announced today that they had decided to withdraw their troops from the United Nations force in the Congo.
Act upheld by Sup Ct, Secondary School Teachers Assn case; Ct urges easing provisions
1960Richard Dent, American football player[†]
Richard Lamar Dent is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL), primarily for the Chicago Bears. He was the MVP of the Super Bowl XX. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
1960Dora Marsden, English author and activist (born 1882)[†]
Dora Marsden was an English suffragette, editor of literary journals, and philosopher of language. Beginning her career as an activist in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), Marsden eventually broke off from the suffragist organization in order to found a journal that would provide a space for more radical voices in the movement. Her prime importance lies with her contributions to the suffrage movement, her criticism of the Pankhursts' WSPU, and her radical feminism, via The Freewoman. There are those who also claim she has relevance to the emergence of literary modernism, while others value her contribution to the understanding of Egoism.
1960While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.[†]
The emperor of Ethiopia, also known as the Atse, was the hereditary ruler of the Ethiopian Empire, from at least the 13th century until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975. The emperor was the head of state and head of government, with ultimate executive, judicial and legislative power in that country. A National Geographic article from 1965 called Imperial Ethiopia "nominally a constitutional monarchy; in fact it was a benevolent autocracy".
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]