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33 Mkts Dept teams visit retail meat mkts in 4 boros; rept widespread cheating on weight and price; Wagner repts 23 of 1st 150 stores visited recd summonses, including Daitch-Shopwell and Safeway stores, Bronx
his confidential analysis of why he lost '52 Repub Pros nomination released, Washington; blames NY financial circles and press publicity 'blitz'; por
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -- A special committee of the Council on Foreign Relations called upon President Eisenhower today to provide the nation with "effective leadership" and "a sense of purpose" in foreign policy.
Herter defends Adm policy, news conf; says Acheson lacks grounds for saying West is being forced into harmful concessions; hopes for improved status for city; holds USSR has at least conceded Western legal rights
tech conf on underground tests detection set as USSR agrees to include study of new US data; experts get instructions from diplomats; Sir Wm Penney heads Brit, Dr Fedorov USSR team
1959Charles Kennedy, Scottish journalist and politician (died 2015)[â ]
Charles Peter Kennedy was a British politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1999 to 2006, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross, Skye and Lochaber from 1983 to 2015.
1959Steve Rothery, English guitarist and songwriter[â ]
Steven Rothery is an English musician who is the original guitarist and the longest continuous member of the progressive rock band Marillion. Outside Marillion, Rothery has recorded two albums as part of the duo The Wishing Tree and an instrumental solo album, The Ghosts of Pripyat, released in September 2014. He also founded the British Guitar Academy in 2011.
1959GĂ©rard Philipe, French actor (born 1922)[â ]
GĂ©rard Philipe was a prominent French actor who appeared in 32 films between 1944 and 1959. He came to prominence during the later period of the poetic realism movement of French Cinema in the late 1940s. His best known credits include Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949), Beauty and the Devil (1950), Fan Fan the Tulip (1953), Montparnasse 19 (1958) and Les liaisons dangereuses (1959).
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[â ]