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US Mines Bur makes world's 1st casting; illus; seen major breakthrough in efforts to develop high-temp-resistant metals for rockets
Casto says Cuba wants good ties with US, s, Havana; does not believe US would intervene; illus; regrets earlier statement daring US to land Marines and see '200,000 gringos dead'; charges US has always had undue influence; says trials are just and aimed at preventing vengeance; R Castro repts wide popular demand for them; Agramonte assails US arms aid to Batista; bomb damage, Sagua de Tanamo, illus
Omnibus housing bill offered by Repr Rains; provides liberalized FHA mortgage ins, 3-yr, $500-milliona-a-yr slum clearance program, $500 million to revive FNMA anti-recession mortgage buying program, $200 million to aid housing for aged, 35,000-unit-a-yr pub housing program; Reprs Widnall and McDonough oppose pub housing feature
Deputy Premier Mikoyan meets with Amer Jewish Com reprs H H Lehman, I M Engel and J Blaustein, NYC; denies USSR plans large-scale shift of Jews to Birobidzhan, region set up in '28 in Siberia; Lehman repts on talk; says other Jewish problems were discussed; gives no details; illus
1959Lisa Milroy, Canadian painter and educator[†]
Lisa Milroy is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects. In the 1980s, Milroy’s paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white background. Subsequently her imagery expanded, which led to a number of different series including landscapes, buildings and portraits. As her approaches to still life diversified, so did her manner of painting, giving rise to a range of stylistic innovations. Throughout her practice, Milroy has been fascinated by the relation between stillness and movement, and the nature of making and looking at painting.
1959Sade, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer[†]
Helen Folasade Adu, known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade, is a British-Nigerian singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist of her band Sade. One of the most successful British female artists in history, she is often recognised as an influence on contemporary music. Her success in the music industry was recognised with the honour Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2002, and she was made Commander in the 2017 Birthday Honours.
1959Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and author (born 1887)[†]
Phan Khôi was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the government, but for which he himself was ultimately persecuted by the Communist Party of Vietnam.
1959Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Astor Piazzolla International Airport in Mar del Plata, Argentina, killing 51.[†]
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 was a regularly scheduled domestic Austral Líneas Aéreas flight operating a route between Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata in Argentina that crashed after encountering poor weather conditions during landing on 16 January 1959, killing 51 of the 52 passengers and crew on board. At the time, the crash was the second-worst accident in Argentine aviation history and is currently the sixth-worst involving a Curtiss C-46 Commando.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]