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NYS Repub leaders and Gov Harriman agree on supplemental budget providing $75,000 for continuing Ins Dept probe of union welfare funds
US Sen (McClellan) subcom opens probe, on Symington request, of FOA award of elevator con struction contract to Agr Construction Co, highest of 5 bidders; Dir Stassen bars FOA aides from sub mitting to subcom staff ints except when he or his lawyers are present; 3 FOA aides invoke ruling; Sens vote to subpoena Stassen and documents; Symington charges FOA has blocked probe; Sens Ervin, McCarthy and others criticize Stassen's chal lenge to Sen's investigating power; Stassen says he and any FOA employe will meet with com; says records have been available; FOA aides Morrison and Saccio illus
Cao Dai forces transfer support to Ngo Dinh Diem; Gen Nguyen Thanh Phuong, with approval of pope Pham Cong Tac, accepts integration into Natl Army, ceremony; Bao Dai criticizes Premier, wire
Barnes-Oppenheim com of experts repts to Justice Dept on its 18-mos study of anti-trust laws; adopts hands-off policy on labor
Khrushchev repts 'tens of thousands' of party and Govt orgn workers will serve as farm chmn on backward collectives; Pravda warns economists not to stress party moves for expansion
1955Don Hasselbeck, American football player and sportscaster[†]
Donald William Hasselbeck was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the New England Patriots, Los Angeles Raiders, Minnesota Vikings, and the New York Giants. He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes, earning second-team All-American honors in 1975. Hasselbeck was selected in the second round of the 1977 NFL draft. He won a Super Bowl with the Raiders in the 1983 season.
1955Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani politician, 5th Commerce Minister of Pakistan[†]
Humayun Akhtar Khan is a Pakistani politician, business tycoon and actuary. He has been elected as a member of the National Assembly four consecutive times between 1990 and 2007, having served as Federal Minister for Trade and Commerce from 2002 to 2007 and as Chairman Board of Investment / Minister of State for Investment from 1997 to 1999.
1955The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.[†]
The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston was a Greek Cypriot nationalist guerrilla organization that fought a campaign for the end of British rule in Cyprus, and for eventual union with Greece.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]