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In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]
1955Louis H. Schiff, retired American judge, law school professor.[†]
Louis H. Schiff is a retired American judge, attorney, professor, and author. He served as a Broward County Court Judge in Florida from 1997 to 2024, recognized for educational sentencing practices, judicial education and judicial leadership. Schiff is an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law and co-author of Baseball and the Law: Cases and Materials (2016), a seminal casebook on baseball law.
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A E Stevenson scores Eisenhower Adm handling of vaccine program, s, NYU-Bellevue Med Center; charges failure to anticipate demand and plan mfr and distribution; hails Salk; remarks seen allusion to Hobby statement that demand could not be forseen; Gov Harriman voices confidence in vaccine; Salk gets NYU hon degree, special alumni medal; illus; 182,449 inoculated in 1st round, NYC; 10-day turnout reptd at 72.4%, held actually to be near 77% because of statistical error; NJ program delayed further as Wyeth recalls 239,850 cc's for retesting; affected communities noted; Salk holds 80% of vaccinees will get some protection from 1st shot; tentative non-paralytic case in vaccinee reptd, Bklyn; figures on NYC turnout; Denmark to complete 2d inoculations for 98% of 400,000 school children; Salk would inoculate during polio season if necessary; sees no danger of contagion from vaccinee if vaccine is properly made
NYCTA votes to spend $3,297,800 for IRT painting
USSR-Yugoslav declaration includes support for peaceful solution on dem basis and in best interests of Ger people and security
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83 riders hurt when IRT Lexington Av express rams standing train, Bronx; motorman and signal maintainer suspended; Comr Bingham blames man failure
J Reston repts some US officials concerned at recent decision, after intra-Govt debate, not to invite Tito to visit US
new co offer reptdly provides payments to supplement unemployment compensation; co, UAW silent; UAW leaders say reptd walkouts are unauthorized
Sen subcom mediates, settles USWA strike against Buffalo Arms Co; Sen Ives holds action 1st of kind by a Cong com
Judge Bazile rules Hanover County, Va, may not use school bonds approved in July '53 to build nonsegregated schools now, 1st action on desegregation by state ct since new Sup Ct ruling; says bonds raising $1 million for bldgs are invalid how since they were approved before Ct ban and therefore with understanding that schools would be segregated; denounces '54 edict; quotes late Chief Justice Taft view that issue is within Const powers of state legislatures; atty S W Shelton, to whom Bazile granted injunction, comments; Bazile opinion does not reflect Ct implementation decree; seen having no bearing on bond issues approved since '54 edict; Ashland newspaper Herald Progress repts Hanover citizens are chagrined at opinion's effect on bldg program; Prince Edward authorities reaffirm they will end pss before authorizing integration; Supt McCord says Clarendon County will do same; Atty Gen Patterson asks Ala Legis for funds for litigation
pro-Amer sympathies of Chinese students in US seen impaired by conditions under which they are being returned to Communist China
US asks farm groups, Iowa State A & M, other insts to select 12 Amers to visit USSR
behavior at Belgrade reception described