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USWA asks Fed ct for 4¢-hr cost-of-living pay rise retroactive to Nov 7; talks recess
talks set in Washington, Jan 11; Amb Menshikov and C E Bohlen to be principals; resumption stems from Khrushchev-Eisenhower confs; prior talks revd
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- The President and Mrs. Eisenhower will fly to Augusta, Ga., Sunday and stay through New Year's Day.
NYS Equalization Bd finds city under-assesses realty by nearly $5 billion but loses no revenue from gap between assessed and full value; Bd exec dir Baldwin comments; some owners pay less, others more than share of total taxes; City Club and Liberal party in earlier statements on under-assessment held more revenue could be raised by full assessments; Bd holds city realty valuation of $23,549,007,000 is 82.65% of full value; assessment and equalization rate systems discussed
USSR agrees to resume exch of scientists with US expeditions; seismologist G Dewart of Calif Tech Inst is on way to USSR base at Mirny for 1-yr stay; Russian counterpart to be stationed at McMurdo Sound; past exchs recalled
1959Michael P. Anderson, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 2003)[†]
Michael Phillip Anderson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. He and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Anderson served as the payload commander and lieutenant colonel in charge of science experiments on the Columbia. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
1959Ramdas Athawale, Indian poet and politician[†]
Dr Ramdas Bandu Athawale is an Indian politician, social activist and trade unionist from Maharashtra. He is the president of the Republican Party of India (A), a splinter group of the Republican Party of India and has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar since 1999. Currently, he is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India since 2016 and represents Maharashtra in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of India's Parliament since 2014. Previously, he was Lok Sabha MP from Pandharpur from 1999 to 2009 and from Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha constituency from 1998 to 1999. He was also Cabinet minister of Maharashtra from 1990 to 1995 and a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council from 1990 to 1996.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]