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In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[â ]
1959Jayne Atkinson, English-American actress[â ]
Jayne Atkinson is a British-American actress. She is best known for the role of Karen Hayes on 24, as well as her Tony Awardânominated roles in The Rainmaker and Enchanted April. She has also appeared in Criminal Minds as BAU Section Chief Erin Strauss, Madam Secretary as United States Vice President Teresa Hurst, and House of Cards as U.S. Secretary of State Catherine Durant.
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The tangled affairs of Alexander L. Guterma took an odd turn yesterday when his counsel subpoenaed the regional administrator of the Securities land Exchange Commission to appear in Federal Court as a defense witness.
AFL-CIO exec council to withdraw its support of Kennedy bill if amendments liberalizing Taft-Hartley Law are dropped from it; charges Eisenhower Adm with 'cynical' attempt to defeat Kennedy bill
Educ Bd closes all evening hss; criticizes Assn for 'picketing' centers and exerting influence on staffs; pledges priority apptmt to teachers who remained on job; Assn deplores closing of schools; munic colls invite hs srs who will not have diplomas because of strike to apply for admission; Bd grateful
Nixon evaluates Kennedy, Stevenson, Johnson, Humphrey, Symington, Brown
1st US meteorological satellite, Vanguard II, designed to scan earth's cloud cover, goes into orbit after launching from Cape Canaveral by Project Vanguard under NASA aegis; 21 1/2-lb, 20-in sphere includes 2 photocells to scan cloud patterns over sunlit portions of earth and tape recorder to store and transmit data; batteries for instruments expected to last about 2 wks though satellite may orbit for centuries; satellite designed at Army Signal Lab, Ft Monmouth, by team under W G Stroud Jr; Dr Porter sees 'new era in weather research'; Natl Sciences Acad says data will be shared with other countries; satellite diagram; illus
on Prime Min Macmillan visit to USSR
Repr Halleck repts Pres, in conf with Repub legis leaders, said he wants Dulles to remain as long as he can and wants to; Sen Mansfield urges Dulles not to resign; Pres confs with Herter, Asst Sec Rubottom
P Johnson slays fellow employes L Rosenberg and E Fallik, Marvin Fabrics Co, after being discharged
Bourguiba warns he might demand French give up Bizerte mil base if peace in Algeria is not reached by June 17; will let France keep base if it recognizes Algerian nationalist aims; again offers to mediate
Rockefeller hints opposition to plan; Wagner adamant
Sen Brydges offers bill to require counties to levy sales tax for school purposes upon demand of school bds; now 'permitted' under '47 law; reaction
hearings on juke box indus; S Saul testifies he was beaten by 3 hoodlums, Dec '57, until he agreed to give them and L Gallo a major part of his coin-machine business; illus; L and J Gallo invoke 5th Amendment; described by com counsel Kennedy as key men in Federated Service Workers Local 19; he links Local 19 with Teamsters Local 266; Local 266 reptdly formed by coin-machine operators to protect them against labor troubles; witnesses invoke 5th Amendment on Local 266