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steps up drive; 50 teams sent out to check; Kaplan repts 37 out of 330 stores checked recd 43 summonses; A&P among those which recd summons for failure to provide scale for consumers to check on pre-pkgd items
attempt to send 372-lb payload to moon using Atlas ICBM vehicle falls, Cape Canaveral; piece of rocket falls off soon after launching
Coverdale & Colpitts interim rept holds subway system safe, accident rate declining; finds BMT least safe, most delays due to car failure; says tracks and supporting structures are safe
Nehru appeals for natl unity, s, Parliament; says he will do utmost to avoid war, but India will 'fight with all our strength' in case of conflict; Socialist leader Kripalani charges 'passivity' has left border undefended; urges readiness to accept foreign mil aid in emergency
Finnegan still optimistic; plans new talks
1959Dai Davies Welsh politician and independent Member of Parliament (MP)[†]
David Clifford Davies, commonly known as Dai Davies, is a Welsh politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Blaenau Gwent constituency in South Wales from 2006 to 2010, representing the Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group. He was elected at a by-election in June 2006 following the death of independent MP Peter Law, but lost his seat at the 2010 general election to Labour's Nick Smith by 10,516 votes.
1959Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, American author and academic[†]
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs is a full professor of Modern Languages and Cultures, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Seattle University. She is the current Theiline Pigott-McCone Chair (2018-2020) at Seattle University. She was a commissioner for the Washington State Arts Commission from 2014 to 2017.
1959Jamie Rose, American actress, singer, and dancer[†]
Jamie Rose is an American actress and acting coach. Born in New York City, Rose was raised in Southern California, where she began her career as a child actor, first appearing in commercials. She made her feature film debut in the cult horror film Just Before Dawn (1981), and subsequently had supporting roles in Clint Eastwood's Tightrope and Heartbreakers.
1959Jerry Schemmel, American sportscaster[†]
Gerard H. Schemmel is an American sportscaster working as a play-by-play radio announcer for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball. He previously called Denver Nuggets games on both Radio and TV for 18 seasons.
1959Sergey Golovkin, Russian serial killer, rapist, torturer, and necrophile (died 1996)[†]
Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovkin was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and necrophile, convicted for the killing of 11 boys between the ages of 10 and 16 in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992. Golovkin, also known as Fisher and The Boa, tortured, raped and killed young boys in his garage basement and the forests outside Moscow.
1959Albert Ketèlbey, English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1875)[†]
Albert William Ketèlbey was an English composer, conductor and pianist, best known for his short pieces of light orchestral music. He was born in Birmingham and moved to London in 1889 to study at Trinity College of Music. After a brilliant studentship he did not pursue the classical career predicted for him, becoming musical director of the Vaudeville Theatre before gaining fame as a composer of light music and as a conductor of his own works.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]