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conf filmed; films ed by White House; substantial parts released for pub showing; experiment goes off well; illus
200 Communist planes raid Tachens; fighting reptdly continues on Yikiang; Nationalist planes attack coastal shipping; Upper Tachen fortifications noted; illus; map
Sir P Dixon (GB) and Sir L K Munro (NZ) welcome Eisenhower suggestion that UN seek truce; reptdly have studied placing issue before Security Council; India reptdly would back truce only as part of final solution to be arranged by conf between US and Communists; speculation
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Assemblyman Bannigan repts Harriman surveys sentiment for legalizing off-track betting; Gov's office denies survey; says Gov is seeking views of several persons
1955McKeeva Bush, Caymanian politician, Premier of the Cayman Islands[†]
William McKeeva Bush, is a Caymanian politician, former Speaker of the Parliament of the Cayman Islands and former Premier of the Cayman Islands. Bush, the former leader of the Cayman Democratic Party, served as the elected member for the constituency of West Bay West from 1984 to 2025. He was the territory's longest ever serving political figure with service spanning over 40 years, previously serving his tenth term in the Parliament of the Cayman Islands. In the 2025 general election, his continuous 40 year career was toppled after being unseated by newcomer Julie Hunter, who ran with the Cayman Islands National Party.
1955Robert P. T. Coffin, American author and poet (born 1892)[†]
Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was an American poet, educator, writer, editor and literary critic. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1936, he was the poetry editor for Yankee magazine.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]