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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 24 -- Pittsburgh liked Premier Khrushchev and Mr. Khrushchev liked Pittsburgh.
DeSapio re-elected county leader by 10 votes to 6 abstentions; Harlem and reform leaders abstain; vote later made unanimous; he pledges unity effort; Sen Morrissey elected exec com chmn; illus with DeSapio
USN proposes unified command for missiles programs directly under Joint Cs/S, altering plan to give USAF prime role; Pentagon officials ordered not to discuss subject; Army seen resigned to losing Huntsville agency; USAF and NASA seen competing for it; Army spokesmen comment
53 killed, 12 hurt as DC-7 crashes, Bordeaux, after take-off for Ivory Coast; map
Budget Bur sees fiscal '60 budget balanced, annual post-Cong rev; puts spending and revenues $1.9 billion higher than Eisenhower Jan estimate, with predicted $100-million surplus unchanged; estimates based on assumption steel strike will end soon; Stans says Eisenhower will offer balanced budget for fiscal '61, news conf; Cong raised spending total by $99 million over Pres Jan estimate; other data; charts
1959Jeon Soo-il, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Jeon Soo-il is a South Korean film director, film producer and screenwriter. After graduating from the Department of Theatre & Film of Kyungsung University in Busan, he studied Film Direction at Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (E.S.R.A) in France from 1988 to 1992. He completed his master and doctorate degrees in Film Science at the Paris Diderot University in Paris, France. He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Theatre & Film of Kyungsung University and the president of Dongnyuk Film.
1959Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.[†]
Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia", was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon, serving from 1956 until his assassination in 1959. The founder of the left-wing and Sinhalese nationalist Sri Lanka Freedom Party, he was elected the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon after creating a powerful coalition called the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and contesting on the lines of Sinhalese nationalism and democratic socialism. He achieved a landslide victory over the ruling United National Party in the general elections in 1956.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]