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THOSE who feel a fall season hasn't really begun until two or three firstclass pictures have come barreling into Broadway theatres may now consider that accomplished and sit back and relax. Broadway has its seasonal openers, particularly in "Damn Yankees" and "The Defiant Ones."
mfrs moves to diversify operations discussed
NEW DELHI, Oct. 4 -- Hotel lobbies of New Delhi are buzzing with talk of liquidity, the price of gold and, above all, the United States proposal to increase the resources of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and its sister agency, the International Monetary Fund.
business steps up drive for increased role in election campaign
The paperboard industry, generally considered a good barometer of economic conditions, has been acting in a bullish manner lately.
1958André Kuipers, Dutch physician and astronaut[†]
André Kuipers is a Dutch physician and ESA astronaut. He became the second Dutch citizen, third Dutch-born and fifth Dutch-speaking astronaut upon launch of Soyuz TMA-4 on 19 April 2004. Kuipers returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-3 11 days later.
1958Neil Peart, Australian footballer[†]
Neil Peart is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood, Richmond and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1980s.
1958Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author[†]
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]