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Ry Labor Execs Assn charges indus deliberately ruins service; NY Cong group announces plan to help ITS maintain service
Hebert repts Vinson ordered study speeded
Tells party leaders he wants to remain Chancellor, will not run for Pres
plans completed to study Alaskan coast where 5 H-bombs may be used to blast harbor near Cape Thompson, W Sullivan rept; map; Washington and Alaska Univs, PHS, other participants noted; Dr Wolfe in charge; Drs Patty, Rogers comment
A Kubly testifies Yonkers '58 expansion was over 70% completed before Monaghan issued Racing Comm permits; Deputy Comr Skolnik repts original cost estimate was $7,525,000 but sees total exceeding $18 million
1959Mark Ella, Australian rugby player[†]
Mark Gordon Ella, AM is an indigenous Australian former rugby union footballer. Ella played at flyhalf/five-eighth and was capped by the Wallabies 25 times, captaining Australia on 10 occasions.
1959Werner Schildhauer, German runner[†]
Werner Schildhauer is a retired German track and field athlete, who represented the former East Germany at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in the 10,000 meter run and placed 7th behind his teammate Jörg Peter.
1959The first government of Singapore is sworn in.[†]
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]