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GULLANE, Scotland, May 29 -Doug Bachli, a game little tavern-keeper from Rosebud, Australia, who neither drinks, smokes nor succumbs to pressure on the golf links, won the British Amateur championship today by rallying to edge Bill Campbell of Huntington, W. Va., 2 and 1.
delegates agree on Eden proposal to ask mil chiefs of both Indo-China commands to negotiate disposition of forces and begin with question of regrouping areas in Vietnam; US, Laos and Cambodia submit reservations insisting Cambodia and Laos be treated separately from Vietnam; Smith clarifies US position; Bidault enters reservations; USSR delegation comments on acceptance of Brit proposal
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inquiry opens; 2 officers link faulty catapult to blast; Raborn revs disaster; says 1 catapult was out of service, placing burden on other
Kidder, Peabody pension plan discussed; seeks to avoid variations in dollar value; believed 1st of kind in Wall St area
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]