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...Congress passes Elementary and Secondary Education Act, first massive federal aid to schools...
...problem of overpopulation is recognized for the first time in a presidential message to Congress...
...York State enacts the nation's first conservation bill of rights...
Died. Joseph P. Spang Jr., 76, former head of the Gillette Co., who was among the first to recognize the advertising potential of sports events; of a heart attack; in Boston. "Look Sharp, Feel Sharp, Be Sharp" went the familiar razor-blade slogan, and few were sharper than Spang, who in 1939 sponsored World Series broadcasts, followed with the Kentucky Derby, football, boxing and the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports radio and TV shows-all of which helped Gillette become pre-eminent in the field, with earnings of $96 million by the time Spang retired...
...First Negro student sit-ins at Greensboro, N.C., lunch counters...