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“60 MINUTES” LISTINGS FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2013

DETROIT – Decades of declining population, reduced tax revenues, corruption and other misfortunes have put a former industrial capital of America on the brink of bankruptcy. Bob Simon reports on the decline of an American city and the people determined to bring it back  Tanya Simon is the producer.

 

BOY WONDER - Jack Andraka is the smartest kid in science class and probably in his entire high school.  But the teen who may have invented an early test for pancreatic cancer – an organ he says he didn’t even know he had when he began his quest – says creativity rather than brains played the bigger role in his discovery.   Morley Safer reports.  Katy Textor is the producer.

 

RESCUE -- In a true story that could be a Hollywood movie, a young assistant bank manager at a Saigon Citibank risks his life to save 105 Vietnamese, spiriting them out of the besieged city in 1975 by duping the American military into thinking they were his own family.   Lesley Stahl reports.  Shachar Bar-On is the producer.

 

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