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Rockefeller on plan
survey of teen-age drivers cites high accident rate; table
Sec Flemming, backed by Pres Eisenhower, offers deferred-payment plan of Fed aid to help construct acad bldgs and dormitories; Sen Murray attacks plan
Wagner backs, DeSapio; stresses he did not take part in moves to depose him; backs Harriman statement of non-opposition to DeSapio leadership; admits party needs revitalizing, that bossism was factor in '58 election
Rebellion flares in NW; Pres Villeda Morales announces Santa Barbara, taken by rebels, already recaptured; map; 130 rebels reptd captured; clandestine radio threats of revolt noted in recent wks; Tegucigalpa calm; rebel leader Col Velasquez Cerrato expelled
1959John Calipari, American basketball player and coach[†]
John Vincent Calipari is an American basketball coach who is the head coach at the University of Arkansas. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]