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In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]
1959Robert B. Weide, American screenwriter, producer and director[†]
Robert B. Weide is an American screenwriter and television producer who served as director and executive producer of the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm from 1999 to 2004. He has also directed several documentaries, four of which are based on the lives of comedians W. C. Fields, Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, and Woody Allen; his latest, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021), explores the life and works of Kurt Vonnegut.
1959A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.[†]
The 1959 Escuminac disaster, also known as the Escuminac hurricane, was considered the worst fishing-related disaster in New Brunswick in 100 years. It occurred due to the extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane. The storm was the third tropical cyclone and first hurricane of the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season, and developed from a tropical wave in the central Gulf of Mexico on June 18. It headed rapidly northeastward and struck Florida later that day. Shortly after entering the Atlantic Ocean, it strengthened into a tropical storm later on June 18. By the following day, it had strengthened into a hurricane. However, it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone about six hours later. The remnants struck Atlantic Canada, once in Nova Scotia and again in Newfoundland before dissipating on June 21.
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BLS Consumer Price Index up 0.1% to record high of 124; graph, '58-59
Frazar again takes over as Acting Gov; legality disputed; Gov condition; Mandeville Hosp Supt holds he must remain there at least 1 mo; psychiatrist holds Gov could have killed self through manic excitement if not committed
Big-4 mins agree to recess conf until July 13 after West rejects Gromyko proposal to extend settlement deadline to 18 mos; Western mins statement deplores USSR refusal to recognize rights
The prospective sponsor of a slum clearance project offered as evidence of "good faith" to deposit $700,000 in a bank headed by Thomas J. Shanahan, it was disclosed yesterday. Mr. Shanahan is vice chairman of the Mayor's Slum Clearance Committee.
Eisenhower, after conf with Strauss, scores rejection, unusual statement to press; text; Strauss discusses rejection; will return to private life; Adm difficulties in getting successor noted; speculation centers on Mueller and ex-Sec Weeks; Nixon sees Strauss victim of partisan pol; blames Johnson; H C Hoover, Kennedy, Anderson comment; Pres, Strauss illus
Erhard charges Adenauer remarks insulted both him and party, statement to party group; indicates truce is broken; asks guarantee against 'further defamation'; Fed Press Office pub excerpt from int transcript
Comr Felix calls conf of both sides after Van Arsdale protests pact wording; picketing continues; proposed settlement provides for wage-rev bd and grievance procedure; L J Davis and Van Arsdale back pact acceptance despite absence of formal union recognition and shop steward provision; Appellate Div reserves decision on appeals from decisions by Justices Epstein and Tilzer
Repr Lindsay urges Cong probe of Slum Clearance Com; H L Present demands Com reorgn, Moses resignation; Soundview tract was designated slum clearance site after owners failed to get city approval of tax abatement for co-op project; O'Keefe confs with Wagner; says city held up Soundview because of high valuation put on site; indicates city approval of project is unlikely; Moses says repts on Soundview ownership are misleading; defends Spargo; H N Glickstein, 1 of 8 owners of Soundview site, describes negotiations with Com; Ungar offered to deposit $700,000 in Fed Bank as evidence of 'good faith' while seeking sponsorship of Riverside-Amsterdam project; was subsequently chosen by Com on Shanahan recommendation; competing bids by 2 others noted; Bank repr says no money was deposited there; Shanahan says Ungar got sponsorship because he originated project
huge 3d century arena excavated near Ch of Holy Cross in Jerusalem, Rome; Prof Iacopi says Heliogabalus watched races here, that bldg may have been started under Severus and Caracalla; illus of rooms found under grandstand, of Mosaic found in remains of a palace of St Helena
HR, 255-117, votes $295-billion temporary coiling and $285-billion permanent coiling
Ulbricht and Grotewohl end visit to USSR; sign joint communique with Khrushchev stressing solidarity on internatl issues; hon at Kremlin reception
ct orders rrs reinstate oilers; dispute will be settled under Ry Labor Act; rrs will comply, may appeal; TWU hails order