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NATO Arabs in Washington see removal of USSR threat resulting in summit conf before spring; conf with Herter; Khrushchev, in Moscow, confirms Eisenhower statement on end of time limit, but stresses negotiations must not go on indefinitely
East-Gulf Coasts strike imminent; mediators pessimistic; union demands discussed
reprs of underdeveloped nations urge stabilized prices for raw materials exports, IBRD-IMF govs meeting; advanced nations reprs not receptive
Los Angeles, NL pennant
Eisenhower private reassurances to Adenauer said to explain latter's equanimity in face of W Ger and W Berlin officials and press fears that Eisenhower weakened Western position in talks with Khrushchev
1959Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach[†]
Ettore Messina is an Italian professional basketball coach who is the head coach of Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He has won four EuroLeague championships as a head coach. Messina is regarded as one of the best European basketball coaches of all time, having been named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors in 2008.
1959Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (born 1877)[†]
Sir Henry Newman Barwell KCMG was the 28th premier of South Australia.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]