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WESTBURY, L. I., Oct. 10 -- Bye Bye Byrd, the fastest pacer in standardbred history, added to his laurels tonight at Roosevelt Raceway with a seven-length victory in the $52,500 Harness Tracks of America Final.
H W Baldwin sees fiscal '61 budget most austere since end of Korean War; discusses probable impact
How's the market? When someone in Wall Street asks this question he could mean the New York Stock Exchange at Broad and Wall Streets, the American Stock Exchange on Trinity Place, the Produce Exchange at Bowling Green and Whitehall Street, the New York Cotton Exchange at Hanover Square, the Coffee and Sugar Exchange on Pine Street or the Maritime and Commodity Exchanges on Broad Street.
DALLAS, Oct. 10 -- Rene Ramirez and two daring sophomores snapped Texas to life today for a 19-12 victory over Oklahoma.
COME to think about it, in the light of a couple of current films, this 1959 has been a surprisingly good year for screen comedies. Maybe not up to the level of some memorable years long gone by, it still has been ever so much better for good, lively humor than most recent years.
1959Wayne Gardner, Australian motorcycle racer[†]
Wayne Michael Gardner is an Australian former professional motorcycle and touring car racer. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1986 to 1992, most prominently as a member of the Honda factory racing team where he became the first Australian to win motorcycling's premier class in 1987. His success on the world motorcycle road racing circuit earned him the nickname The Wollongong Whiz.
1959Allan Little, Scottish journalist and author[†]
James Allan Stuart Little is a Special Correspondent for BBC News, based at New Broadcasting House, London.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]