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Premier Malenkov says agr program, which he administered before becoming Premier, had 'bad results,' resignation statement
US Sup Ct dismisses appeals of 13 teachers, 5 of whom went munic coll employes, who were ousted for refusing to answer Sen (Ferguson) subcom queries on Communist party membership, '52; cites want of properly presented Fed questions agrees to hear appeal of 14th, H Slochower of Bklyn Coll, because attys properly presented questions; questions listed; rehearing in state cts held possibl if Slochower wins case
Premier-designate Pinay calls Resident Gen Lacoste to Paris for confs
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Indian sources rept USSR proposed conf on Far East outside UN, excluding Nationalist China, to Brit Embassy in Moscow; say bid has been weighed at Brit Commonwealth Prime Mins conf, London; reaction
1955John Grisham, American lawyer and author[†]
John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American novelist, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing.
1955Jim Neidhart, American wrestler (died 2018)[†]
James Henry Neidhart was an American professional wrestler known for his appearances in the 1980s and 1990s in the World Wrestling Federation as Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart, where he was a two-time WWF Tag Team Champion with his real-life brother-in-law Bret Hart in the Hart Foundation. He also won titles in Stampede Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Mid-South Wrestling, Memphis Championship Wrestling and the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation. He was part of the Hart wrestling family through marriage to his wife Ellie Hart, teaming with various members throughout his career, and appearing with his daughter Natalya Neidhart on the reality television show Total Divas.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]