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Announces retirement as US Steal Corp chmn and chief exec officer at stockholders meeting; stockholders, USWA pres McDonald tributes; career; illus
US to train selected RAF crews in atomic bombing techniques; acts under US '54 Atomic Energy Act and recent NATO accord; move is 1st involving allied use of US bombs
Diem and 3 Gens warn Bao Dai he can no longer appt Govts; say only one selected by 'will of the people' will be recognized; Diem seeks US guarantee that he will be recognized if Bao Dai is deposed; Diem backers set pol conf to weigh ouster; Diem confs with Collins; French bring more troops into Saigon; concede Diem victory; Natl Army opens offensive against rebels outside city
2 NYS bills to curb crime, sex and horror pubs signed; 2 vetoed; approved bills bar pub or distribution of objectionable pubs and forbid sale to minors under 18; vetoed ones would have permitted search and seizure of pubs on premises and required pubs to include name of publisher
Dulles opposes amendment as harmful to conduct of foreign affairs, Kefauver subcom; would accept Eisenhower proposal to reaffirm Const precedence over treaties but holds it unnecessary; says he has switched his stand from '52 backing of treaty curb; F E Holman backs amendment
1955Stephen D. M. Brown, British geneticist[†]
Steve David Macleod Brown is a British geneticist who is director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Mammalian Genetics Unit, MRC Harwell at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, a research centre on mouse genetics. In addition, he leads the Genetics and Pathobiology of Deafness research group.
1955David Hookes, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (died 2004)[†]
David William Hookes was an Australian cricket player and coach. He played for the Australia national cricket team and domestic cricket for South Australia, later coaching Victoria. An aggressive left-handed batsman, Hookes usually batted in the middle order. His international career got off to a sensational start in the Centenary Test at Melbourne in 1977 when he hit England captain Tony Greig for five consecutive boundaries, but a combination of circumstances ensured that he never became a regular in the Australian team. He wrote in his autobiography, "I suspect history will judge me harshly as a batsman because of my modest record in 23 Tests and I can't complain about that".
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]