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Mayor Wagner releases rept by Comr D'Angelo that fluoridation of NYC water is technically feasible but cost would be high; to seek early vote on fluoridation; says he will vote for it; rept does not discuss med issues; details
repts of Farm Belt discontent spur Dems hopes for victory in '60 Pres election; Humphrey sees it major campaign issue
Rosenthal repts he feared to file story of defection of top Polish intelligence agent Col Monat while in Poland lest he be expelled or arrested
More arrests are expected in the city's meat fraud scandal. Investigations Commissioner Louis I. Kaplan said yesterday.
Cuban Workers Confed withdraws from ICFTU Inter-Amer Regional Orgn
1959Maxwell Caulfield, English-American actor[†]
Maxwell Caulfield is a British actor. He has appeared in Grease 2 (1982), Electric Dreams (1984), The Boys Next Door (1985), The Supernaturals (1986), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), Waxwork 2 (1992), Gettysburg (1993), Empire Records (1995), The Real Blonde (1997), The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), and in A Prince for Christmas (2015). In 2015, Caulfield toured Australia with his wife Juliet Mills and sister-in-law Hayley Mills in the comedy Legends! by Pulitzer Prize winner James Kirkwood. He voiced James Bond in the video game James Bond 007: Nightfire (2002). He most recently stars in the Netflix movie The Merry Gentlemen (2024).
1959French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".[†]
The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic, is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces. As the presidency is the supreme magistracy of the country, the position is the highest office in France. The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, in addition to their relation with the prime minister and government of France, have over time differed with the various constitutional documents since the Second Republic.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]