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City Hall repts Mayor will not curtail vacation because of NYC employes work-stoppage threats
Sen, 52-32, passes McCarthy-Javits amendment to emergency program extension bill to continue program unchanged until July 1; Sen-House conferees kill amendment; approve bill essentially the same as House bill
White House issues rept on scientific aspects of Argus, its history and some results; repts radiation belt varied from several hundred to 4,000 mi high with avg thickness about 100 mi but varying with alt; says belt lasted several wks but was no stronger than natural radiation; repts Explorer IV laced through belt 250 times
Eisenhower urges mgt and labor in coming steel wage negotiations to avoid action that would spur gen price rises, news conf; M S Eccles blames 'labor monopolies' and Fed spending for inflation, Cong Econ Com hearing; Pres Council of Econ Advisers opposes Sen Clark-Repr Reuss bill to require Council hearings on rises that threaten stability
Legis approves study; Dems charge '61 election link but most vote for bill; Sen Zaretzki comments; bill gives comm power to subpoena dept records
1959Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist and screenwriter (born 1888)[†]
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]