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ex-Under Sec J W Hanes named finance com chmn for fair; total fair cost estimated at $500 million; bond issue expected to be floated in Feb; NYC to rent Flushing Meadow Park to fair com for $1 a yr; Wagner confident Estimate Bd will allocate $100,000 to prepare site; Deegan outlines plans
China increases demands in statement claiming frontier territory in NE India previously unclaimed on Chinese maps; warns troops will enter area if Indians persist in patrolling it; hints at relaxing stand on McMahon Line if India cedes large area; map; Indian sources score statement as gravest provocation made against India
Bd studies transferring some from overcrowded pss in E Harlem to underutilized pss in Yorkville; move would lead to integration though it is intended mainly to ease overcrowding; only 207 of 1,294 parents favor shift
Vice Pres Balaguer says Govt has spent $50 million for arms abroad during '59 because of threats of invasion from Cuba, int; denies sum was borrowed; says budget is kept within $150 million; assails alleged aggressive aims of Cuba and Venezuela; charges 2,000-3,000 invaders are training in Cuba now
Sup Ct to hear injunction case; orders stay pending decision; Goldberg stresses importance of 1st Sup Ct ruling on Taft-Hartley Act injunction; denies natl emergency; Govt brief reaffirms emergency
1959Mats NĂ€slund, Swedish ice hockey player[â ]
Mats Torsten NĂ€slund, nicknamed "Le Petit Viking", is a Swedish former ice hockey player. He played as a left winger. Despite his small size at only five feet and seven inches, NĂ€slund is best known for being one of the top forwards with the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens from 1982 to 1990. In addition to the Canadiens, NĂ€slund played for TimrĂ„ IK, BrynĂ€s IF, and Malmö IF of the Swedish Elite League, and HC Lugano of the National League A between 1975 and 1994. He made a short NHL comeback attempt in 1995 with the Boston Bruins following the 1994â95 NHL lockout, and retired after the season's conclusion.
1959Neal Stephenson, American author[â ]
Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque.
1959Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (born 1885)[â ]
Jean Cabannes was a French physicist specialising in optics.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[â ]