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In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]
1955Mary O'Connor, New Zealand runner[†]
Mary Theresa O'Connor is a retired long-distance runner from New Zealand. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There she ended up in 27th place in the women's marathon. O'Connor set her personal best in the classic distance (2:28.20) in 1983.
1955Mary Schapiro, American lawyer and politician[†]
Mary Lovelace Schapiro served as the 29th Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She was appointed by President Barack Obama, unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and assumed the Chairship on January 27, 2009. She is the first woman to be the permanent Chair of the SEC. In 2009, Forbes ranked her the 56th most powerful woman in the world.
in Leningrad; T Kono (US) and F Osip (USSR) set world records; Amers hailed
26 polio experts representing 5 health orgns, PHS and Natl Foundation recommend inoculations continue through peak polio summer season; hold slight risk of provoking effect in persons already naturally infected is far outweighed by preventive effect, especially against paralytic type; hold vaccine different from other immunizing agents usually not given in polio season; see small risk because vaccine is not 100% effective; say risk can be cut further by not injecting persons who have symptoms of minor ills or are in household where case has just occurred; issue statement after meeting called by Foundation, NYC
It is almost ten years since Juan Peron strode from behind the scenes, where he wielded decisive power, to the center of the Argentine political arena and assumed the role of President. They have been ten tumultous years for Argentina. To foreign observers Peron seems a showman and poseur -- limitlessly ambitious, brilliant and capricious by turns, and above all, ruthless in manipulating the levers of powers.
Pres to fly to San Francisco; New Eng itinerary
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 -- An incredible finish marked the fifty-fifth United States Open golf championship today. Ben Hogan, in a bid for a record-breaking fifth triumph in this tournament, was tied by an unheralded 32-year-old Davenport (Iowa) professional, Jack Fleck.
Peiping radio repts 3 Amers and 2 Belgians change their minds about staying in China; says 5 will be released; repts Bell, Griggs and Devriendt (Belgium) want to go to US, Cowart to Japan, Verdyck (Belgium) to Laos; hints other discontented POWs may change minds; Chinese Red Cross repr Liu Shih-hsiao offers aid to those who may later decide to quit China; repts R E Douglas died in China
illus with Western Big-3 mins, NYC
High Voltage, Del Oaks
LAST week Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Jerome Robbins, as formidable an array of talent as any daydreaming producer would care to conceive of, took from their idea bank a notion they have been saving for some time, looked it over and gleefully decided it still was as fetching as when it had been put away because of other commitments.
article on variety in colors now possible in bldgs
ST. LOUIS, June 18 -- The Dodgers tried to blast the Cardinals with a delayed-action bomb tonight, But the thing backfired and the Redbirds, to the cheers of 27,569, upended Walter Alston's Brooks, 5 to 4, in a blistering ten-inning battle.