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MONTREAL, Oct. 17 -- The New York Rangers, getting excellent goaltending from Gump Worsley, beat the Montreal Canadiens, 4 -- 2, tonight. The victory was the first in five National Hockey League games for New York.
RECENTLY we read someplace that the thing people are most interested in is not what you would think. It is merely how to get ahead in the world. Love, loyalty, religion, all the exalted things that are known to inspire human beings, are supposed to be of less concern to the average run-of-the-mill person than how to make out and succeed.
Commercial banks' profits found cut by stiff competition with other financial insts and by Govt controls; details; NYU (Bogen-Nadler) study, made for Reserve City Bankers Assn, cited
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 17 -- Ohio State returned to its "three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust" offense today and ground out a 15-0 victory over Purdue's Boilermakers in a Big Ten contest before 83,391.
For nearly six months the situation in steel has hung as a dark cloud over the American economy. For four months the steel mills have been idle in one of the most stubborn strikes in history. For a week the Government has in effect been sitting in as a third party at the bargaining table.
1959Kirby Chambliss, American pilot[†]
Kirby Chambliss is an American world champion aerobatic and air race pilot who raced in the Red Bull Air Race World Series under the Red Bull brand.
1959Mauricio Funes, Salvadoran politician, former President of El Salvador (died 2025)[†]
Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena was a Salvadoran politician and journalist who served as the 79th president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party and took office on 1 June 2009.
1959Milcho Manchevski, Macedonian-American director and screenwriter[†]
Milcho Manchevski is a Macedonian-American film director, photographer and artist.
1959John Nord, American wrestler[†]
John Eric Nord is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the American Wrestling Association and World Class Championship Wrestling in the 1980s as Nord the Barbarian and Yukon John and with the World Wrestling Federation, All Japan Pro Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling in the 1990s as The Berzerker and under his birth name.
1959Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (born 1898)[†]
Ahmed Boughèra El Ouafi was a French Algerian athlete who won the 1928 Olympic Marathon.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]