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Vice Pres Nixon urges more exchs, s, Degtyarsk, USSR
Festival seminar on atomic energy
central Govt reptd ready to take over Kerala Govt; map
McDonald urges more Fed effort to end strike, news conf; Bethlehem pres Homer repeats Blough warning of possible price rise if Govt intervenes; says 'pol influence' in past strikes forced inflationary wage rises; McDonald derides stand; Mitchell repts he has begun exhaustive study of causes of 6 strikes since World War II; indicates he may recommend special legis on problem; Finnegan sets 2d joint conf
H S Truman hails plan to shift Bohlen, article
1959Stanley Jordan, American guitarist, pianist, and songwriter[†]
Stanley Jordan is an American jazz guitarist noted for his playing technique, which involves tapping his fingers on the fretboard of the guitar with both hands.
1959Andrew Marr, Scottish journalist and author[†]
Andrew William Stevenson Marr is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and presenter. Beginning his career as a political commentator at The Scotsman, he subsequently edited The Independent newspaper from 1996 to 1998 and was political editor of BBC News from 2000 to 2005.
1959Kim Newman, English journalist and author[†]
Kim James Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. He is interested in film history and horror fiction – both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven – and alternative history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the BSFA award.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]