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US Sec Wilson doubts claim
Synthetic diamond produced at GE Research Lab, Schenectady; illus; pressures and temps existing 240 mi below earth surface simulated; process still too costly to compete with natural diamonds; effect on stock market noted; previous unsuccessful attempts to make diamonds revd; gem diamond indus sees little effect on diamond market
6 armed anti-Communists seize Rumanian Legation, Bern, Switzerland; demand Rumania free 5 resistance leaders from jail; kill Legation chauffeur in attack on bldg; Swiss police hold 2 who left bldg, reptdly offer 4 others a fair trial for chauffeur's death and pledge not to extradite them; Rumania protests; demands arrest and extradition; Charge d'Affaires Stoffel describes attack; illus
China-held Amers; Knowland scores UN for failing to win release of airmen; Dulles defends UN role
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]