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Sen Dem leaders urge Adm weigh Chou offer; Dulles silent; confs with Eisenhower; Johnson and Kefauver back George; Sparkman urges testing Communist sincerity by renewing UN effort for cease-fire; Sen Case confident Eisenhower will avoid war
USSR reptdly counts on new unified E Eur command to provide legal basis for keeping troops in Hungary when occupation of Austria ends
high winds cause test postponement; Graves on weather effects; tents of troops and observers blown down
US Sup Ct, 6-2, denies ptl M J Regan was deprived of const rights when convicted of criminal contempt, '53, for refusal to tell grand jury whether he accepted bribes from bookmakers while a member of police force; backs immunity waiver
Ali lists release of US fliers among possible assurances of sincerity in connection with US-Peiping talks
1955Kurt Bodewig, German politician[†]
Kurt Bodewig is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2009, representing the Neuss I district. From 2000 to 2002, he served as Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development in the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]