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Meany rejects demand to charter new unions to fight Teamsters; s, AFL-CIO; warns move would expose anti-Hoffa teamsters to econ persecution
state com meets; Vice Chmn Todd resigns; Sivertsen successor; Sprague, R Lehr resign from exec com; Patterson, Sen Cooke successors
Rockefeller, Wagner, Comr Kennedy and Justice Cone urge tighter Fed controls, Sen subcom hearing on youth crime, NYC
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Eisenhower warns free bargaining is on trial, urges greater effort, White House conf with Mitchell; McDonald, Cooper exch charges; 22 Dem Sens headed by Clark and Symington wire Eisenhower for conf with them and steel state Govs; Gov Boggs issues Eisenhower lr refusing meeting with Govs Conf exec com
1959Theo Paphitis, Cypriot-English businessman[â ]
Theodoros Paphitis is a Greek-Cypriot British retail magnate and entrepreneur. He is best known for his appearances on the BBC business programme Dragons' Den and as former chairman of Millwall Football Club.
1959Steve Whitmire, American puppeteer[â ]
Steven Lawrence Whitmire is an American puppeteer, known primarily for his work on The Muppets and Sesame Street. Beginning his involvement with the Muppets in 1978, Whitmire originated the roles of Rizzo the Rat, Lips, Wembley Fraggle, and Bean Bunny. He also inherited the roles of Kermit the Frog and Ernie after Jim Henson's death in 1990; he performed the characters until 2014 and 2016, respectively. In later years, he also performed Statler and Beaker. As part of the Muppet cast, he has appeared in multiple feature films and television series, performing a variety of characters on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and Fraggle Rock and during such occupations has been employed by The Jim Henson Company, Sesame Workshop, and The Muppets Studio.
1959TAI Flight 307 crashes during takeoff from BordeauxâMĂ©rignac Airport in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, killing 55 people.[â ]
TAI Flight 307 was a scheduled flight operated by Transports AĂ©riens Intercontinentaux (TAI) between France and the Ivory Coast via Mali operated by a Douglas DC-7C. On 24 September 1959, the aircraft crashed during its departure from BordeauxâMĂ©rignac Airport, France when it flew into trees. All of the flight crew and 45 of the 56 passengers on board were killed; the other 11 passengers were seriously injured.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[â ]