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Deputy Togliatti charges Luce interferes in internal affairs and dictates Govt program, Parliament; suggests she is 'bad luck'; repts Communists ready to discuss collaboration with Christian Dems; Fanfani and De Gasperi dispute charges; US Embassy denies intervention
weighers strike after mediation fails; pledge no picket lines
some housewives seen withdrawing from labor market
Sherwood, (Mr and Mrs) C: Ptl J Manley held for murder threats, Bklyn
US Sen (Saltonstall) com hearing on $200-million contract let to GM Fisher Body Div for M-48 tanks; Asst Sec Slezak puts Govt saving at $18 million; cites Army policy; Sen Kefauver calls it false econ; says Govt would have saved more if both GM and Chrysler had been kept in business; other objections
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]