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V Sheean gets US passport valid for Communist China; intends to open news bur for Westinghouse Broadcasting
Rebel Govt leaders Krim, Boussouf and Mehri charge US blocks arms shipments to rebels from 'certain' nations; say US mil aid to France prolongs war; say rebels will accept aid from any source; comments seen reaction to US statement on its aid to France; Krim sees Communist Chinese Amb, Rabat
Sen com, 9-8, approves Strauss; Anderson doubts confirmation; Sens Engle, S M Young hold Pres should withdraw apptmt; disputed by press sec Hagerty
Wagner plan detailed; Polyclinic dir Fish denies strike vote was taken; drug union asks Roosevelt and St Luke's Hosps to meet on recognition; bldg trades locals vote to withhold funds from struck hosps; workers walk out at Bklyn Jewish, continue out at Beth Israel, Lenox Hill
Council gets 5 bills: (1) levying 10¢-a-ride taxi tax to yield $20 million; (2) raising from 1/4 of 1% to 2/5 of 1% gross receipts tax of gen business and from 1 to 1 1/2% of financial business, to yield $55.5 million; exemption to be on 1st $10,000 for gen business, $5,000 for financial business; (3) doubling of 1% gross business tax on utilities to yield $13 million; (4) levying 1/2 of 1% tax on real estate sales to yield $1 million; sales to $25,000 exempt; (5) levying vending machine tax, ltd to juke boxes, to yield $500,000; Wagner to name com to study operations of taxi tax
1959Susan Cowsill, American singer-songwriter[†]
Susan Claire Cowsill is a musician, vocalist and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the family band The Cowsills. After touring with Dwight Twilley for quite some time in the 1980s, she co-formed the band Continental Drifters. Since 1990, she has been with the Cowsills, along with brothers Bob and Paul.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]