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Natl Guard hunts 35 armed rebels reptd to have landed in SW Chontales area; Air Force attacks 2d plane reptd to have brought invaders from CR; gen strike on as Civic Action Com talks with Somoza fail
Rockefeller justifies his '59 program, s, Finger lakes Assn
NYS Investigation Comm probe; evidence offered showing Roosevelt and Yonkers Raceways paid $15,395 hotel and entertainment bills of Monaghan and staff during Fla stay; recipients including Harness Comm Steward Burke listed; Burke, Fugazy Travel Bur repr McCue and others testify
hosp reprs conf with W H Davis panel; fear proposed grievance procedures amt to union recognition; union aide Goodman arrested after fracas at Bklyn Jewish Hosp; charge against Mt Sinai employe B Holland withdrawn; Justice Spector signs contempt order against drug union pres L J Davis, sec Ayash; employes of Roosevelt, LI Jewish, Home and Hosp of Daughters of Jacob meet on strike plan; hotel union reprs agree with Williamsburg Gen, Lefferts Gen and Hunts Pt proprietary hosps on bargaining election; Sen Morse backs drug union strike, s, NYC; Van Arsdale confs with Labor Council com; G Meany urges end to alleged exploitation of Negroes and Puerto Ricans, s
Eisenhower, Sec Anderson, Cong leaders discuss ceiling rise, secret White House conf
1959Rineke Dijkstra, Dutch photographer[†]
Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize and the 2017 Hasselblad Award.
1959Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress[†]
Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker. Her career began during the 1970s New York City no wave scene as the singer and guitarist of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
1959Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (born 1884)[†]
Lyda Cini, Countess of Monselice was an Italian actress of cinema and theatre. Her career in theatre started when she was a child, acting on stage with Paola Pezzaglia in the French drama I due derelitti.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]