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OEEC 6th annual rept shows 128% rise in intra-Eur vol and other gains since ERP start; deficit with dollar area down to $1 billion, '53
Gen Twining repts USSR has more planes than US
Zenith cancels sponsorship of TV program Omnibus charging CBS banned commercial on Phonevision from show; CBS confirms ban, defends stand; text of banned commercial; ABC '54 refusal to carry such commercial recalled
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 6--Israel charged today that Egypt was embarked on a relentless siege of border violence that threatens the six-yearold Palestine armistice.
Lockheed mfg new jet trainer for USN, T2V-1, with air-blowing device that cuts landing and take-off distance; craft designed to curb carrier training hazards; blower shoots compressed air through wings, thereby increasing lift; illus; diagram; wider uses noted
1955Tim Cochran, American mathematician and academic (died 2014)[†]
Thomas "Tim" Daniel Cochran was a professor of mathematics at Rice University specializing in topology, especially low-dimensional topology, the theory of knots and links and associated algebra.
1955Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer and journalist[†]
Gregory Walter Jarrett is an American conservative news commentator, author and attorney. He joined Fox News in November 2002, after working at local NBC and ABC TV stations for over ten years, as well as national networks Court TV and MSNBC.
1955Theda Bara, American actress (born 1885)[†]
Theda Bara was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp", later fueling the rising popularity in "vamp" roles based in exoticism and sexual domination.
1955Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.[†]
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a member of parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]