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W Ger Trade Union Fed votes to back unification talks before rearmament; Pres Heuss tries to reconcile Govt and labor leaders on issue
30 radar-equipped Lockheed Super Constellations to begin E Coast seaward patrols Mar 1, extending early-warning net; craft and operations described; illus
NYC Anti-Crime Com repts secret police raid uncovered illegal wiretapping center capable of intercepting conversations on 6 mid-town axchs, memo to NYS Sen and Assembly leaders; police and FBI silent; Com repts police found 2 NY Telephone Co employes, 2 others operating bridges into circuits; employes suspended; Com exec dir O'Mara holds laws antiquated and unrealistic in light of electronic advances; difficulty of proving guilt where new devices are used held possible factor in police reluctance to rept raid
Files reservations to OAS comm rept on recent Nicaragua-CR conflict
Memphis officials plan to build plant to obviate need for controversial Dixon-Yates plant in W Memphis
1955Lisa See, American writer and novelist[†]
Lisa See is an American writer and novelist. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels Flower Net (1997), The Interior (1999), Dragon Bones (2003), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), Peony in Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009), which made it to the 2010 New York Times bestseller list. Both Shanghai Girls and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan received honorable mentions from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.
1955Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.[†]
Operation Teapot was a series of 14 nuclear test explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of 1955. It was preceded by Operation Castle, and followed by Operation Wigwam. Wigwam was, administratively, a part of Teapot, but it is usually treated as a class of its own. The aims of the operation were to establish military tactics for ground forces on a nuclear battlefield and to improve the nuclear weapons used for strategic delivery.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]