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Wagner rejects offer after getting Preusse com rept opposing if; rept detailed
Eisenhower holds Mrs Luce remark 'ill-advised' but 'perfectly human,' press conf; sees usefulness unimpaired; denies she disparaged Sen as a whole; Sen debate continues after Mrs Luce asks Dirksen to develop case further on Sen floor; Dirksen, Morse clash over Morse propriety in phoning Mrs Luce dr to query about psychiatric treatment; Morse denies 'vendetta'; backed confirmation without hearings, Mar 3, but changed mind after getting data on qualifications; Sens seeking to retaliate against Mrs Luce dissuaded because of possible harm to Latin-Amer ties; Sen S M Young reads poem Woman with a Serpent's Tongue; Brazil hails confirmation
Eisenhower holds there are many approaches to easing tension, news conf
Pres Eisenhower stresses US concern over drift toward Communist control, press conf; says US seeks good relations
M Frankel on service to Siberia; illus; map
1959Stephen Harper, Canadian economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada[†]
Stephen Joseph Harper is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He is to date the only prime minister to have come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, serving as the party's first leader from 2004 to 2015. Since 2018, he has also been the chairman of the International Democracy Union.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]