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In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]
1960Richard M. Durbin, English biologist and academic[†]
Richard Michael Durbin is a British computational biologist and Al-Kindi Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Sanger Institute where he was previously a senior group leader.
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Eisenhower Adm adopts policy favoring private development and utilization of communications satellites; would have Govt aid in developing and launching satellites but leave ultimate responsibility to private indus; aim seen to seize pol initiative; Glennan resigns as NASA head effective Jan 20; exch of lrs between him and Eisenhower and 8-page rept outline NASA achievements since '58
Hospitals in New York State received a reprieve last night from a medical ruling that would have cost them the services of more than 500 foreign-trained physicians.
T S Eliot opposes formal teaching of contemporary poetry, article in the Teachers Coll Record; W C Williams, W H Auden comment
Bolt believed fired from power tool of bldg worker, NYC, flies through nearby office window, critically hurts R Rubens
NY Central asks NYS PSC permit to raise commuter and coach fares 10% in NYC suburban area, effective Jan 29; asks that single-trip fares within 22 mi of NYC be raised 10-30%; cites losses; table of present and proposed rates
E and W Ger agree to continue $500-million annual trade in '61; apparently head off crisis over access to W Berlin; speculation on terms
Prof M Smith repts on find of copy of lr by Clement of Alexandria ascribing new secret gospel to St Mark and narrating miracle of Lazarus not in present Gospel of Mark, s, Biblical Literature Soc; copy found in Mar Saba Monastery, Jordan; details on Clement, lr, significance of find, issue of authenticity; monastery illus
Kennedy seen naming H Labouisse Dir
DeSapio acts to fight Wagner move
12 writers and actors sue under antitrust laws to enjoin all major producers from using alleged blacklist to deny them employment; also seek $7 1/2 million in damages
CCNY issues rept on Nassau County in series on Met Area problems financed by Rockefeller Foundation
repts 49-64 million acres 'seriously affected' with some of the land producing nothing; radio repts stress seriousness, official sources make only indirect mention of possible shortages; US officials believe repts exaggerated; note Hong Kong repts that '60 output will be slightly over '59