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Geneva talks resume; Wadsworth urges Amer, Brit and USSR experts meet June 22 for comprehensive study of high-alt tests; stresses US insistence on discussing underground blasts; Tsarapkin seeks to limit study; Lloyd, Gromyko talk informally on test ban
Pres says Repub loyalty behind Adm program is 'good omen' for '60 Cong campaign, s, Cong campaign coms dinner; hails Adm efforts to aid avg citizen; Nixon says Dems do little for country
over 1,000 small tobacco farmers meet, Pinar del Rio, to protest land reform law; vow to defy it; details
Mayor Wagner and Gov Rockefeller s; latter illus; H T Thomas elected pres
Justice Harlan says requirements of freedom would bar any legis com from probing what a teacher teaches, but says Cong is not precluded from querying witness merely because he is a teacher, US Sup Ct ruling upholding power of Cong and state legis to probe subversion in case of L Barenblatt who was convicted of contempt for refusing to answer HR Un-Amer Activities Com queries on Communist ties
1959Peter Fowler, Australian golfer[†]
Peter Randall Fowler is an Australian professional golfer. He played on the European Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia, and the European Senior Tour.
1959Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)[†]
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.
1959The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.[†]
USS George Washington (SSBN-598) was the United States's first operational ballistic missile submarine. She was the lead ship of her class of nuclear ballistic missile submarines, was the third United States Navy ship of the name, in honor of Founding Father George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States, and was the first of that name to be purpose-built as a warship.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]