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In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[â ]
1955Steve George, American keyboard player and songwriter[â ]
Steve George is an American keyboard player, saxophone player and singer who is perhaps best known as the keyboardist and background vocalist for the 1980s band, Mr. Mister. He co-wrote all of the Mr. Mister songs, together with his childhood friend, Mr. Mister frontman Richard Page, with whom he also played in Pages prior to forming Mr. Mister.
1955Zbigniew Preisner, Polish composer and producer[â ]
Zbigniew Preisner is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof KieÅlowski. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture â Gloria Artis as well as the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He is a member of the French Film Academy.
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Eisenhower urges rate rises to make service self-supporting
Exec bd meets, Vienna; resolutions
SAIGON, Vietnam, May 19 -- The Government of South Vietnam wants a conference here with the United States, Britain and France at the foreign ministers' level.
WASHINGTON, May 19 -- A Senate subcommittee asserted today that the United States was so unprepared that "possibly millions of lives" might be unnecessarily lost in a hydrogen bomb attack.
Vinson fails to effect compromise on Powell amendment; no further study planned now; some see Plan abandoned
US State Dept says USSR Deputy Premier Molotov may attend
Deputies, 121-12, passes bill for Const reform to disestablish RC Ch as official religion; intent is to drop all refs to it in Const; bill calls for pub election of Const Assembly within 6 mos; Radical and Peronista jurists differ on whether Assembly debate could be ltd to Cath issue; BA Episcopate avoids pub demonstrations
meeting; H C Hoover s; election; L M Williams chmn; 3 vice chmn named
US labor reprs at ICFTU conf see W Ger unions opposing neutrality
NYC Admr Gulick proposes reforms in munic finances, US Mayors Conf
NYS Sup Ct sanctions return of modified burlesque by approving Phillips appeal for license; scores McCaffrey refusal; H Minsky plans
PHS repts 30% rise in wk with 206 cases reptd; disease yr total above '54 but calendar yr total lags