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Nixon-Khrushchev exch detailed; Nixon, Khrushchev illus
100 books removed from book exhibit after USSR protests display violates exch rules; USSR officials withdraw 30 more including '59 World Almanac as they continue screening; hold only books on Amer culture should be shown; some removed books listed
sudden rain squall stalls PRR, LIRR evening rush-hr trains
HR subcom votes $726.5-million cut; details; Eisenhower disappointed, but hopes some can be restored; signs authorization bill, while objecting to provisions about Cong right to get now secret evaluation data on program
debate detailed, quoted
1959Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (died 2014)[†]
Fyodor Fyodorovich Cherenkov was a Soviet and Russian football midfielder who played for Spartak Moscow and Red Star Football Club (1990–91).
1959Geoffrey Zakarian, American chef and author[†]
Geoffrey Zakarian is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author. He is the executive chef of several restaurants in New York City, Atlantic City, and Miami. He is featured on several television shows on the Food Network, including Chopped and The Next Iron Chef. In 2011, on The Next Iron Chef he won an opportunity to join Iron Chef America.
1959Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Irish rabbi and author (born 1888)[†]
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, also known as Isaac Herzog or Hertzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1936 until his death in 1959, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine and of Israel after its creation in 1948. He was the father of Chaim Herzog and grandfather of Isaac Herzog, both presidents of Israel.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]