Alaskans accepted it, and on January third, nineteen fifty-nine, President Eisenhower declared Alaska the forty-ninth state.

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The figure was the lowest since January last year and the ninth month-on-month decline.

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Glass turned seventy-five on January 31st, and Carnegie Hall marked the occasion by presenting the first American performance of his Ninth Symphony, with the American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

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