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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- John A. McCone, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, disclosed tonight that he would resign when the Kennedy administration takes over Jan. 20.
Moses outlines plans for acquiring 11 sites to be financed in part by recently approved state bond issue; sites listed; map
Kennedy calls conf of top Dem Cong leaders on legis program; Dirksen says Repub aim will be to modify, not oppose, programs
Boum Oum and his Savannakhet Cabinet take over in Vientiane; illus
Ecuador reaffirms right to revoke border pact, reply to guarantor powers notes of Dec 7
1960Derrick Jensen, American author and activist[†]
Derrick Jensen is an American ecophilosopher in the anarcho-primitivist tradition.
1960Michelangelo Signorile, American journalist and author[†]
Michelangelo Signorile is an American journalist, author and talk radio host. His radio program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada on Sirius XM Radio and globally online. Signorile was editor-at-large for HuffPost from 2011 until 2019. Signorile is a political liberal, and covers a wide variety of political and cultural issues.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]