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February 4, 1955

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Headlines from February 4, 1955

Silver Heads School Board After Contest With O'Shea; SILVER NEW HEAD OF SCHOOL BOARD Deciding Ballot in 5-to-4 Vote Cast by Mrs. Sands, New Brooklyn Member

By Leonard Buder

C H Silver elected pres, 5-4

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MENDES-FRANCE STAKES HIS FATE ON AFRICA POLICY; Mendes-France Stakes His Fate On a Test Vote on North Africa Premier Demands Confidence Vote--Assembly Indicates Refusal and Swift Crisis

By Henry Ginigerspecial To the New York Times

asks confidence vote in move to forestall defeat; defends policy against criticism by R Mayer, others; reminds Assembly it approved same policy before

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CITY CRIME AT PEAK IN '54, ADAMS SAYS, BUT HE CITES GAINS; CRIME CASES HERE SET RECORD IN, '54 Commissioner Reports Total of 295,622 Cases Against 261,980 Year Before TREND LATELY REVERSED Further Improvement Linked to an Increase in Force --Situation 'Critical'

By Charles Grutzner

Issues summary of NYC crime, '54

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S.E.C. BRIEFS BACK DIXON-YATES PACT; S. E. C. BRIEFS BACK DIXON-YATES PACT Stand of Democrats Weak, Administration Insists-- Foes Dispute Position

By William M. Blairspecial To the New York Times

Justice Dept and AEC hold Anderson com recision of waiver illegal, brief filed with SEC; hold '54 Atomic Energy Act authorized no right of reconsideration; backed by Dixon-Yates syndicate and SEC Staff counsel briefs; Tenn brief defends com; Yates rejects proposal Dixon-Yates withdraw from contract; com pub rept on members views; 83d Cong com rept on waiver quoted

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Zero Weather Numbs City On Coldest Day in 7 Years; ZERO COLD IN CITY IS LOW SINCE 1948

By Wayne Phillips

zero, record for date and lowest since '48; Hudson River frozen between Nyack and Tarrytown 1st time since '18; other effects; hrly temperature chart

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1955Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak politician, Prime Minister of Slovakia^[†]

Mikuláš Dzurinda is a Slovak politician who was the prime minister of Slovakia from 30 October 1998 to 4 July 2006. Dzurinda is the founder and leader of the Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK) and then the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ–DS). From 2002 to 2006, his party formed a coalition government with the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), the Alliance of the New Citizen (ANO), and the Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK–MKP).

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In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people^[†]

Headlines from February 4, 1955

Silver Heads School Board After Contest With O'Shea; SILVER NEW HEAD OF SCHOOL BOARD Deciding Ballot in 5-to-4 Vote Cast by Mrs. Sands, New Brooklyn Member

MENDES-FRANCE STAKES HIS FATE ON AFRICA POLICY; Mendes-France Stakes His Fate On a Test Vote on North Africa Premier Demands Confidence Vote--Assembly Indicates Refusal and Swift Crisis

CITY CRIME AT PEAK IN '54, ADAMS SAYS, BUT HE CITES GAINS; CRIME CASES HERE SET RECORD IN, '54 Commissioner Reports Total of 295,622 Cases Against 261,980 Year Before TREND LATELY REVERSED Further Improvement Linked to an Increase in Force --Situation 'Critical'

S.E.C. BRIEFS BACK DIXON-YATES PACT; S. E. C. BRIEFS BACK DIXON-YATES PACT Stand of Democrats Weak, Administration Insists-- Foes Dispute Position

Zero Weather Numbs City On Coldest Day in 7 Years; ZERO COLD IN CITY IS LOW SINCE 1948

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