member nations. As many as 250 delegates to a conference of the AFL-CIO got food poisoning after eating dinner on board a train bound from Toledo to Washington. One day before the press conference introducing the members of NASA Astronaut Group 1, USAF test pilot Capt. Halvor M. Ekeren, Jr., who had been one of the 32 astronaut finalists earlier in the year, died in the crash of his Convair JF-106A-50 Delta Dart near Indian Springs AFB in Nevada. Died: Marios Makrionitis, 45, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens, was killed in an automobile accident. April 9, 1959 (Thursday) NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan introduced the seven Mercury astronauts at a press conference in Washington, D.C. By rank, they were Lt. Col. John Glenn, Lieutenant Commanders Wally Schirra and Alan Shepard, Air Force Captains Gordon Cooper, Gus Grissom and Deke Slayton, and Navy Lt. Scott Carpenter. On April 9 and 10, investigations of two escape configurations for Mercury spacecraft were conducted in a transonic circuit at the Arnold Engineering Development Center, Tullahoma, Tennessee, for determination of static stability and drag characteristics of the configurations. The first hijacking of an airliner to Cuba took place after six Haitian rebels killed the pilot of a Coahata Airlines flight bound from Aux Cayes to Port-au-Prince, then flew the DC3 to Havana. Comedian Lenny Bruce made his national television debut, as a guest on The Steve Allen Show. The Boston Celtics beat the Minneapolis Lakers 118–113 to sweep the four-game NBA championship series, in the first of the Celtics-Lakers title matches. Actor George Reeves, who portrayed Superman on television, was injured when the brakes failed on his Jaguar automobile, and he crashed into a light pole near his home in Beverly Hills. Reeves suffered regular headaches after the accident, and would die from a gunshot wound on June 16. Died: Frank Lloyd Wright, 91, American architect, died in Phoenix, three days after intestinal surgery. April 10, 1959 (Friday) Japan's Crown Prince Akihito married Michiko Shōda in a 15-minute Shinto ceremony, at in Tokyo. She was the first commoner to marry into the Imperial House of Japan. After the wedding, Kensetsu Makayama, 19, tried to climb into the royal coach after throwing a rock at the couple. Thirty-four people, mostly children, were killed by a bomb left over from World War II. Fishermen had retrieved the weapon from a sunken ship in Lingayen Gulf near Dagupan