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WASHINGTON, May 25 -- The Eisenhower Administration sustained a major defeat tonight as Democrats steered to Senate passage a vast highway expansion bill that differed sharply from the President's recommendations. The defeat came on a voice vote.
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1955Alberto Ascari, Italian racing driver (born 1918)[†]
Alberto Ascari was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1955. Ascari won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1952 and 1953 with Ferrari, and won 13 Grands Prix across six seasons. In endurance racing, Ascari won the Mille Miglia in 1954 with Lancia.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]