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In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]
1955John Baldacci, American politician, 73rd Governor of Maine[†]
John Elias Baldacci is an American politician who served as the 73rd governor of Maine from 2003 to 2011. A Democrat, he also served in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 and in the Maine Senate from 1982 to 1994.
1955Curtis Strange, American golfer[†]
Curtis Northrup Strange is an American professional golfer and TV color commentator. He is the winner of consecutive U.S. Open titles and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. He spent over 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between their debut in 1986 and 1990.
1955Mychal Thompson, Bahamian-American basketball player and sportscaster[†]
Mychal George Thompson is a Bahamian sports commentator and former professional basketball player. The top overall pick in the 1978 NBA draft, Thompson played the center position for the University of Minnesota and center and power forward for the National Basketball Association's Portland Trail Blazers, San Antonio Spurs, and Los Angeles Lakers. Thompson won two NBA championships with the Lakers during their Showtime era in the 1980s. He is the father of basketball players Klay Thompson and Mychel Thompson, and baseball player Trayce Thompson.
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AEC repts plant designed to preserve potatoes 2 yrs without spoilage by use of atomic radiation
THE United States international cultural offensive is now in the big-gun stage. Last week disclosure was made that with the assistance of the International Exchange Program of the American National Theatre and Academy a variety of exports in the arts would be sent to France this spring.
WEST POINT, N. Y., Jan 29 -- Army caught Columbia's favored basketball team napping today but was unable to capitalize on it. The result was a 75-to-69 defeat for the cadets after a five-minute overtime period in the contest played on the big field-house court.
The movement to coordinate retirement plans of public employes with the Social Security program is gaining momentum, it is indicated.
Sec Benson urges greater responsibility by local govts to promote Fed econ, s, NYC
American railroads, which spread a network of 35,000 mailing points over this country between the Eighteen Fifties and the Nineteen Twenties, are worried that someone is going to do to them what they did to the canal and wagon routes they supplanted.
A key group of American executives view the immediate business outlook with cautious optimism. That is the finding of the January survey of the National Association of Purchasing Agents.
Formosa 'liberation' rally, Peiping, illus
Uranium mining activity in the rocky canyons and mesas of the Colorado Plateau has expanded sharply in two and a half years. Today about 600 uranium mines are being operated in that high tableland stretching across tens of thousands of square miles in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. The figure also includes a few properties in Wyoming and South Dakota.
Govt plans to convert surpluses into ghee for sale in Middle and Far East; officials hold move will open new mkts, end consideration of Communist bloc as outlet and halt fears of dumping; producer nations to weigh plan with Agr Dept
Fordham's basketball team last night scored a bit of an upset by defeating Seton Hall, 75--55, at the Rams' gymnasium. It was not so much an upset so far as the victory went, but the margin of 20 points certainly was unexpected.