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WESTBURY, L. I., June 7 -Heaps of late speed, plenty of racing luck and Clint Hodgins' quick eye and hands enabled C. M. Saunders' Scotchlite to capture the $8,000 pace at Roosevelt Raceway tonight.
L Hebert cards 71 as mark for Natl Golf Day program
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, June 7 -- Joe Carr of Ireland, aided by two great successive shots, won the British Amateur golf championship for the second time today by overpowering England's Alan Thiriwell, 3 and 2.
Brown visits Gov Harriman, NYC; illus; plurality over Knowland put at 650,000; he doubts rebuke to Nixon can be inferred
1958Louise Richardson, Irish political scientist and academic[†]
Dame Louise Mary Richardson is an Irish political scientist whose specialist field is the study of terrorism. In January 2023, she became president of the philanthropic foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York. In January 2016, she became the first female vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, having formerly been the principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St Andrews, and as the executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her leadership at the University of Oxford played an important role in the successful development of a vaccine to combat COVID-19.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]