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hotel and restaurant workers and musicians threaten strike unless Govt reopens casinos in tourist hotels
Pres Eisenhower suspects that false radio waves sometimes lure US craft into Communist territory, news conf; denies US provocative tactics; cites his order 2 yrs ago setting distance US craft must keep from USSR border
Wagner sees plan raising city and state revenues by $100 million yrly
Eisenhower says illness will not delay talks with USSR; news conf
1959Roberto Moreno, Brazilian race car driver[†]
Roberto Pupo Moreno, usually known as Roberto Moreno and also as Pupo Moreno, is a Brazilian former racing driver. He participated in 75 Formula One Grands Prix, achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 15 championship points. He raced in CART in 1986, and was Formula 3000 champion before joining Formula One full-time in 1989. He returned to CART in 1996 where he enjoyed an Indian summer in 2000 and 2001, and managed to extend his career in the series until 2008. He also raced in endurance events and GT's in Brazil, but now works as a driver coach and consultant, and although this takes up a lot of his time, he is not officially retired yet, as he appears in historic events. Away from the sport, he enjoys building light aeroplanes.
1959The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.[†]
The Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia was an organization of states within the British Aden Protectorate in what would become South Yemen. The Federation of six states was inaugurated in the British Colony of Aden on 11 February 1959, and the Federation and Britain signed a “Treaty of Friendship and Protection,” which detailed plans for British financial and military assistance. It subsequently added nine states and, on 4 April 1962, became known as the Federation of South Arabia. This was joined by the Aden Colony on 18 January 1963.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]