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Teamsters and United Parcel reach pact granting 20¢ hrly pay rise; laud mediators; dept stores refuse to rept strike effect on sales
75th birthday marked; 50,000 at parties in 66 cities; 16 cities linked by closed-circuit TV; he attends NYC dinner; comments; illus; tributes by Mrs Roosevelt, D Acheson, Sen Johnson, Miss M J Truman, A E Stevenson, P M Butler, W A Harriman, Wagner, others; Churchill, Lord Attlee, Prime Min Ben-Gurion greetings; Speaker Rayburn gives Truman diary of Civil War soldier; Mrs Truman, E C Daniel at NYC dinner; other highlights
unity of new NYS Cong bloc threatened; Repr Celler assails Repub statement
Dems reply; Cong bloc unity threatened
Excursion boat springs leak on Nile River, capsizes near shore as panicky passengers rush to 1 side; 200 feared lost
1959Bhaurao Patil, Indian activist and educator (born 1887)[†]
Bhaurao Patil, was a social activist and educator in Maharashtra, India. A strong advocate of mass education, he founded the Rayat Education Society. Bhaurao played an important role in educating backward castes and low income people by coining the philosophy earn and learn. He was a prominent member of Satyashodhak Samaj, founded by Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. The people of Maharashtra honoured him with the sobriquet Karmaveer and the Government of India awarded him with Padma Bhushan in 1959 in India.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]