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Growers efforts to raise retail prices offset by heavy overproduction; outlook
The Union Oil Company of California and associates may have brought in what could be a most important oil well in Australia. Important showings of oil and gas have been encountered in several producing zones to a depth of 12,000 feet.
LOUISVILLE, May 6 -- They were thick and elaborately braided, like Wagnerian sopranos, but their legs were long and thin, like Suzy Parker's.
program of up to 4 more suborbital flights may be curtailed; NASA plans 2d flight within 6 wks; hopes for orbital flight by yr-end; observers dubious; key problem is reliability of Atlas booster; launching gantry being modified
Last month saw substantial gains in practically every sector of the economy, the National Association of Purchasing Agents said last week. In its regular monthly report, the group said:
1961Sue Black, Scottish anthropologist and academic[†]
Susan Margaret Black, Baroness Black of Strome is a Scottish forensic anthropologist, anatomist and academic. She was the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University and is past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. From 2003 to 2018 she was Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee. She is President of St John's College, Oxford.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]