Tuesday, May 19, 1959

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The Headlines

Cuban Farm Law Imperils U.S. Sugar Concerns' Land; Companies With Foreign Stockholders Barred From Owning Plantations -- Property Inheritance Curbed

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Barbie Doll

On This Day

• The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
• Ho Chi Minh (1890)
• Malcolm X (1925)
• Pol Pot (1925)
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762)

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Tech Check

Xerox 914 Copier, Microchip (Planar) & Pacemaker.

Cost of Living (1950)