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Dulles says he does not expect Big-4 talks to cover Far East issues, news conf
Douglas is bldg jet transport, DC-8, able to carry 80-125 passengers at speeds to 550 mph; repts plane will fly US-Eur non-stop regardless of winds; stresses it was built without mil subsidy or airline orders; craft powered by 4 J-57 engines
Accompanies father, Prime Min Nehru, on trip to USSR
AMA symposium on prospects for polio control; Scheele, Salk, 12 other experts take part; Scheele says Salk vaccine is hard to make and no batch can be proven to be fully safe before use; says when supplies are available it will prevent high percentage of cases, especially in children 6-9; repts benefits for others still in doubt; 'consensus of judgment' of experts is that what happened to unsatisfactory batches of Cutter vaccine is not yet known, that shots seem to provoke viruses already in vaccinee, that probably shot itself, not vaccine, has provocative effect, that new vaccination programs should not be started in epidemic areas this summer but that 2d doses should be given regardless of epidemics, that hitches in program were to be expected, that vaccine will be improved, that a completely different vaccine will be developed, that Fed rules on mfr and testing of vaccines have completely changed after Salk vaccine experience, that 'recipe' for vaccine mfr did not work as expected, that it has been changed; Salk hailed at AMA session; says series of 3 shots gives protection for 30 mos, 1 shot for 6; Scheele repts on studies on which revised mfg standards were based; declines to blame any one for failure of old recipe; Dr Shannon revs latest modifications in Fed-prescribed recipe; longer 'cooking' of live virus stressed; Dublin, Francis rev results of field trials; Dr McGuinness notes mfg difficulties; Dr Stokes notes danger of overtreating vaccine in search for safety; Sabin fears new mfg rules will void results of trials by reducing vaccine potency; Salk repts search for Type 1 virus strain other than virulent Mahoney strain for use in vaccine
Invited by USSR to visit Moscow
1955Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web[†]
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
1955José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer and manager[†]
José Antonio Camacho Alfaro is a Spanish former football left-back and a former manager.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]