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June 2, 1955

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Headlines from June 2, 1955

U. S. CONSUL PRODS AIDE OF RED CHINA ON RELEASE OF 63; U. S. CONSUL PRODS PEIPING AIDE ON 63 At Parley in Geneva He Adds Names of 11 Americans to List of Those Held MEN ON 2 LOST PLANES Washington Believes Them Alive, Although Peiping Has Professed 'Ignorance'

By Special to The New York Times

US Consul Gen Gowen, Geneva, presses Communist Chinese Consul Shen Ping for data on China-held Amers; freed fliers hold press conf, Honolulu; bar answering some questions; say they resisted 'brainwashing' but pleaded guilty to 'intruding' into China and 'provocative attack'; rept they were informed of trial 4 hrs before it got under way; silent on whether they had landed N of Yalu; Cameron links release to Hammarskjold's visit to Peiping; says 'brainwashing' methods were those used in NK; 4 rept they spent 6-26 mos in solitary confinement; describe conditions and treatment; illus; Fischer says anti-Communist outbursts by Amers, including McCarthy, affected them

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VACCINATED CHILD STRICKEN BY POLIO; VACCINATED CHILD STRICKEN BY POLIO

By Peter Kihss

vaccinee D Lent, 6, stricken, Bethpage, NY; NYS, Nassau County Health Depts see no link to vaccine; NYC turnout at 71.8% exclusive of 2,578 make-ups; more NJ communities delay programs; NYS asks Foundation for 30,000 more booster shots; Milwaukee returns 28,000 doses; unable to find 150 volunteers for test among 1st and 2d graders; NYC and suburban inoculation figures

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Notable Births

Dana Carvey

1955Dana Carvey, American comedian and actor[†]

Dana Thomas Carvey is an American stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster, screenwriter and producer.

Nandan Nilekani

1955Nandan Nilekani, Indian businessman, co-founded Infosys[†]

Nandan Mohanrao Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur. He co-founded Infosys and is the non-executive chairman of Infosys replacing R Seshasayee and Ravi Venkatesan, who were the co-chairs of the board, on 24 August 2017. After the exit of Vishal Sikka, Nilekani was appointed as non-executive chairman of the board effective 24 August 2017. He was the chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). After a successful career at Infosys, he headed the Government of India's technology committee, TAGUP. He is a member of Indian National Congress but not active in politics as of 2019.

Mani Ratnam

1955Mani Ratnam, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter[†]

Gopalaratnam Subramaniam, known professionally as Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who predominantly works in Tamil cinema and a few Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films.

Michael Steele (musician)

1955Michael Steele, American singer-songwriter and bass player[†]

Michael Steele is an American retired musician, best known as the bassist for the Bangles. Under the name Micki Steele, she was a founding member of the Runaways but left in 1975, shortly before the band's major label debut. For the next several years, she played with various other musical groups for short periods of time.

Historical Events

Soviet Union

1955The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinued since 1948.[†]

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.

Historical Context for June 2, 1955

In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]