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Most clubs to use new lightweight nylon-wool uniforms, '59; changes since 1849 noted; illus; A G Spalding official on co role in outfitting teams
Seldom has Wall Street painted its forecasts with brighter crimsons or gloomier blues. Gone are the days when all investment advisers pointed in one direction and stocks went in the other.
League of W Side Orgns offers program for rehabilitating and preventing slums, booklet; urges neighborhood orgns, special ct for handling housing cases; other recommendations
Book, Education and Freedom, revd by Profs Bestor and Brameld
Hungary to limit activities of US Legation, Budapest; holds them threat to natl security; acts after US rejects Hungarian note asking improved ties; US aide calls note offensive; State Dept comments
1959Wade Wilson, American football player and coach (died 2019)[†]
Charles Wade Wilson was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys, and Oakland Raiders in a seventeen-year NFL career from 1981 to 1998. He was quarterbacks coach for the Dallas Cowboys from 2000 to 2002 and from 2007 to 2017, and also for the Chicago Bears from 2004 to 2006. He played college football for East Texas State Lions, where he was an NAIA All-American quarterback and led the Lions to the NAIA national semifinals during the 1980 season.
1959Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (born 1873)[†]
Madame Sul-Te-Wan was an American actress.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]