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In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]
1959Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer, actor, and singer[†]
Mark Alexander Jackson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club, St Kilda Football Club and Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).
1959South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.[†]
Phan Quang Đán was a Vietnamese political opposition figure who was one of only two non-government politicians who won a seat in the 1959 South Vietnamese election for the National Assembly. Subsequently, he was arrested by the forces of President Ngô Đình Diệm and not allowed to take his seat. The most prominent dissident during the rule of Diệm, he is remembered more for his incarceration than his activities after Diệm's fall, when he became a cabinet minister.
article on drop in mining engineering students; 208 recd 1st degree in '59, 469 in '51; speculation; illus
2 youths stabbed to death, 3d critically hurt by group of teen-agers in W 45th St playground
Army officer repts 'unrest bordering on panic' but sees situation kept under control; says there have been no more organized border crossings; blames Pathet Lao for rumors of imminent Govt collapse; says lack of communications bars effective denials; conflict revd
signs it; old and new benefit scales compared; survivor grants noted
Australia won the Davis Cup challenge round doubles match yesterday after play had been interrupted late in the second set by a violent rainstorm that drenched most of the 7,000 spectators in the Forest Hills stadium.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Aug. 29 -- Some four decades after a popular songwriter of post-World War I vintage asked "How're ya Gonna Keep Them Down on the Farm?" a score of European countries appear to have found at least a partial solution. Their answer is "Electrify!"
Periodically throughout the postwar era, Chinese Communist expansionist pressures have precipitated armed conflict in the Far East and raised the threat of a major war. The three principal arenas of conflict have been Korea, Vietnam, and the Taiwan Strait.
The stock market righted itself last week. Selling pressure lifted and, as a result, prices were up for the first time this month. But the market's action at times was not unlike that of a seesaw. Aircraft shares, which dipped earlier in the period, followed the steel, motor and electronic issues in imparting a firmer tone to the list.
In no place is a vagrant film reviewer more defenselessly but tolerably exposed to public opinion about movies than in a summer resort, especially one that, by virtue of its traffic, gets a flow of fairly up-to-date films.
he hints at self-determination, s, Tebessa; urges peace 1st; Army officers pleased with earlier statement reaffirming 'pacification' aim