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In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]
1959Scott Altman, American captain, pilot, and astronaut[†]
Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman is a retired United States Navy Captain and naval aviator, engineer, test pilot and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. His fourth mission on STS-125 was the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. In 2018, he was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame. As of November 2022, he is the president of the Space operating group for ASRC Federal.
1959American Airlines Flight 514, a Boeing 707, crashes near the Calverton Executive Airpark in Calverton, New York, killing all five people on board.[†]
American Airlines Flight 514 was a training flight from Idlewild International Airport, to the Grumman Aircraft Corp. airfield. On the afternoon of August 15, 1959, the Boeing 707 operating the flight crashed near the Calverton airport, killing all five crew members aboard. This was the first accident to involve a Boeing 707, which had only gone into service in October of the previous year, and the first of three accidents involving American's 707s in the New York area within three years, followed by Flight 1502 and Flight 1.
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Vice Pres Nixon, discussing his visit to Moscow, repts Khrushchev believes millions of US workers are ready to revolt and institute socialism or communism; says Khrushchev visit to US would afford opportunity to remove some of his miscalculations, TV ints with Sens Mundt and Keating
Butler, in Los Angeles, confs with Poulson, Ziffren, Pauley, others
Created by Exec Order; members are AEC Chmn and Secs of Health, Educ and Welfare, Commerce and Defense; Dr Kistiakowsky adviser
session; security precautions intensified
Rockefeller confs with Dewey, Morhouse, Hinman; reptd under pressure to stress that polls will be only 1, not decisive, factor; aides deny he will visit NH after Nixon tour
VIENTIANE, Aug. 14 (Reuters) -- Premier Phoui defied today "intimidation" by Communist China, Laos' neighbor to the north.
A precise young man named Arnold Sprinz spent $100 for a lawyer, borrowed thousands of dollars' worth of scientific equipment and went to court Thursday night to beat a $1 overtime parking ticket.
Amer guides seen hit of fair; visitors seem to prefer talks with them to viewing exhibits; guides describe type of queries and reactions to responses; illus
Educ Bd rejects Glendale Taxpayers Assn plea to rescind decision on transfers; Silver calls shift temporary; Intergroup Relations Comm, hailing move, seeks clarification of statement
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Moses indicates Wagner reverses stand on Spargo and Lebwohl
6,000 protest N Vietnam infiltration, Vientiane; Phoui Sananikone says Communist neighbors hope to take them over; defies Communist China; repts he is sending messenger to UN to rept to Hammerskjold; Communist forces reptdly scattered in Jungle; 106 escape from Govt camp