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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
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.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]