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Meyner asks $80,700,736 for hwys, fiscal '59; says $58,364,000 more will be recd under Fed program
ALBANY, Feb. 17 -- Governor Harriman vetoed today two bills that would have outlawed unauthorized "bugging," or electronic eavesdropping, of private conversations.
NYC snow removal hampered by cold, lack of trucks due to strike; most commuter trains delayed; school absenteeism high; cost of extra fuel oil consumption put at $3.4 million; all Fed workers in Washington get 1-day holiday
NYS Assembly approves 1st bill implementing 15 rrs program for cuts in local realty taxes, other relief
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]