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USWA and 12 cos open negotiations; McDonald urges 'practical measures' to spread employment, including shorter work wk, higher pay; strike unlikely to hamper auto indus because of large steel stockpile
Baudouin arrives, Washington; met by Pres Eisenhower; hon, state dinner; illus
conf opens, Geneva, after delay caused by issue of E and W Ger delegates status; they will have advisory role, can address conf only with unanimous consent of Big-4 mins; mins sit at hollow, circular table opposite Ger delegations and conf secretariat members; illus; Hammarskjold greets conf, offers UN aid; Lloyd, as 1st day chmn, replies; urges sincere effort at negotiation; events leading up to settlement of Ger issue at informal mins session revd
MIAMI BEACH, May 11 -- David Dubinsky offered a political slogan today for labor in 1960: "Veto the veto."
NJ Sen approves Lance bill to direct Port Auth to build link between Jersey Central and H&M RRs, buy $3.5 million worth of passenger cars for resulting unified system; bill would let Jersey Central drop Jersey City-Manhattan ferry service
1959Ving Rhames, American actor[†]
Irving Rameses Rhames is an American actor. He is best known for portraying IMF Agent Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series (1996–2025) and crime boss Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction (1994).
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]