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lrs to Ladejinsky show that as late as Oct 15 '54 high Agr Dept officials told him he could not be spared from Tokyo post; Ladejinsky leaves
Madison Av, 1245: 2 dead
Stump says US forces are ready to start Tachen evacuation; lunches with Pres and Mme Chiang; says US forces will defend selves if attacked; holds Quemoy and Matsu important but not vital; says Navy will cooperate with press as far as possible within security limits; confs with US comdrs, Tokyo, on way back to Pearl Harbor; Amer and Nationalist sources deny evacuation is delayed by Nationalist demand for US pledge to defend Quemoy and Matsu
Liberator (freighter): liner Queen Mary takes off 2 injured seamen by lifeboat in heavy sea, mid-Atlantic
USSR offers own cease-fire plan to UN; A A Sobolev transmits lr and draft resolution charging US with aggression and intervention, demanding US forces withdraw; asks cease-fire to permit removal of all armed forces from islands not controlled by Communists; similarity to '50 resolution noted
1955Virginia Ruzici, Romanian tennis player and manager[†]
Virginia Ruzici is a Romanian former professional tennis player. She won the 1978 French Open singles championship.
1955John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)[†]
John Raleigh Mott was an American evangelist and long-serving leader of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF). He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for his work in establishing and strengthening international Protestant Christian student organizations that worked to promote peace. He shared the prize with Emily Balch. From 1895 until 1920 Mott was the General Secretary of the WSCF. Intimately involved in the formation of the World Council of Churches in 1948, that body elected him as a lifelong honorary President. He helped found the World Student Christian Federation in 1895, the 1910 World Missionary Conference and the World Council of Churches in 1948. His best-known book, The Evangelization of the World in this Generation, became a missionary slogan in the early 20th century.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]