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NYS PSC approves rise for NY,NH&H commuters; cost of 46-ride monthly ticket to increase 95¢-$3.10; table shows Westchester and recently approved Conn rises
bill for $4,686,000,000 to finance programs, fiscal '60, passed
HR com fails to act on Adm plan to raise interest
Air Force chief Maj Diaz Lanz resigns, charging Communist infiltration of armed forces and Govt, lr to Urrutia; charges his authority was undermined; denounced as traitor by successor, Maj Almeida; Urrutia rejects lr; 3 US and 1 Brit citizens held, reptdly in connection with arms cache
2 US Negro jazz artists on USSR tour with Yale group stage impromptu jazz concert for Tchaikovsky Conservatory students, Moscow
1959Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.[†]
The yard is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meter. A distance of 1,760 yards is equal to 1 mile.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]