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efforts to broaden and speed trs of foreign scientific pubs discussed; use of computers to make trs noted; sample
ex-Gov Gen Rajagopalachari assails seizure, article in Freedom party pub; sees damage to UN prestige, loss of India's moral power
50 killed, over 100 hurt by bomb believed planted by terrorist in crowd taking part in religious procession, Buga; map
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traffic death toll at 504, high since '55
1961Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer[†]
Andrew James Lock OAM is an Australian mountaineer. He became the first, and still remains the only, Australian to climb all 14 "eight-thousanders" on 2 October 2009, and is the 18th person to ever complete this feat. He climbed 13 of the 14 without bottled oxygen, only using it on Mount Everest, which he has summited three times. He retired from eight-thousander climbing in 2012.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]