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In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]
1959Gaston Gingras, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Gaston Reginald Gingras is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played one season in the World Hockey Association (WHA) and ten seasons in the National Hockey League from 1978 to 1989. He won the 1986 Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens.
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Joint session marks Lincoln 150th birth anniv; hears C Sandburg tribute; reaction; illus
USSR links breakdown in talks with Iran to 'US pressure'; holds Iran was already committed to sign mil pact with US as part of 'aggressive Baghdad Pact,'
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12--Speaker Sam Rayburn forecast today that the Democratic majority in Congress would get "a great deal of help from Republicans" to defeat the Administration's proposal to raise interest rates on rural electric loans.
RC Ch and Falangist civil gov Gen Acedo clash over Ch's support of Boy Scouts, Catalonia; Abbot Escarre protests Acedo's attempt to curb Scouts
Comr Kennedy orders wide police shake-up as result of Mar '58 Harlem policy racket probe and current expose of police-gambler ties, Bklyn; demotes 4 Harlem police officials, dismisses 1 ptl; Bklyn Deputy Inspector Masella, plainclothes ptl Connelly and Weiner arrested and suspended for using illegal wiretaps to shake down bookmakers; Kennedy summons 150 top officers; illus; demands tighter gambling restrictions; deplores police corruption
E Ger sources reptdly hint USSR might aid in settlement of problems arising from E Ger control of access; E Ger propaganda now stresses confs rather than threats; denies anyone seeks to push West out; W Berlin officials reptd critical of Western propaganda stress on alleged threat
Sen Mansfield urges Berlin be unified through direct E Ger-W Ger negotiations, s, Sen; suggests role for Hammarskjold and UN guarantee of new status; holds accord would open way for all-Ger reunification; assails Adm for 'do-nothing' policy; outlines proposed new policy for West
Repts to Mayor Wagner on Educ Bd, its orgn and mgt of school planning and construction
Hurd sees changes yielding at least $50 million more in fiscal '61 than in '60; reply to Levitt; lays discrepancy to shift to withholding; sees no justification for larger exemptions; other data; leading Dem confirms Dem support for program except exemptions cut
Urging bigger quota of US contributions to IBRD and IMF