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West softens threat to break off talks
Draper com recommends creation of single agency to adm econ aid, interim rept forwarded to Cong by Eisenhower; stresses importance of continued aid to underdeveloped areas; urges better coordination to fight waste and inefficiency; urges birth control data be made available to recipient nations to enable them to maintain econ gains
Controller Gen Campbell charges waste, inefficiency and mal-adm throughout program, testimony released by HR subcom
all work stopped for 1 hr to demand Castro return to office; he says he resigned to win 'moral force' for revolution, s, textile workers conv; denounces foreign and domestic enemies of revolution; scores foreign news repts on regime; army unit illus in Matanzas on way to Havana for celebration
HR com, 16-14, approves bill; provisions; bill saved from death in com by 2 Repubs switching votes to assure showdown in House; Meany scores bill
1959At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".[†]
The American National Exhibition, held from July 25 to September 4, 1959, was an exhibition of American art, fashion, cars, capitalism, model homes and futuristic kitchens. Held at Sokolniki Park in Moscow, then capital of the Soviet Union, the exhibition attracted 3 million visitors during its six-week run. The Cold War event is historic for the Kitchen Debate between then-U.S. vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, held first at the model kitchen table, outfitted by General Electric, and then continued in the color television studio where it was broadcast to both countries, with each leader arguing the merits of his system, and a conversation that "escalated from washing machines to nuclear warfare."
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]