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team capt R Reeves s, sports group meeting; hails USSR hospitality; recalls earlier matches
$269,159,000 approved by Sen
talks deadlocked; US Steel pres Hood calls strike threat 'unnecessary'; union rejects about same offers from 5 other big cos; US Steel, Bethlehem, Inland start banking furnaces; McDonald s on TV
US to dismiss all charges and drop litigation; por
Hoover Comm repts on CIA; Clark task force concerned over lack of adequate intelligence data on USSR; sees no valid ground for McCarthy charge of infiltration by Communists; hails zeal and enthusiasm of personnel; warns against complacency; urges creation of 'watch-dog' comm of Cong members and Pres apptees; Comm urges creation of Pres com and standing joint Cong com; task force implicitly criticizes State Dept in saying that diplomacy is not end in itself and more boldness is needed at policy level; makes secret rept to Pres detailing internal reorgn; hails Dir Dulles but finds him over-burdened; proposes apptmt of an exec dir; comments on operations of mil forces intelligence divs; hails Dir Hoover for making FBI model counterintelligence orgn; urges central hdqrs for CIA
1955Charles J. Precourt, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut[†]
Charles Joseph Precourt is a retired NASA astronaut. His career in flight began at an early age, and spans his entire lifetime. He served in the US Air Force, piloted numerous jet aircraft, and piloted and commanded the Space Shuttle. Notably, he piloted or commanded several missions which involved docking with the Russian Mir space station and was heavily involved in Russian/US Space relations as well as the International Space Station collaboration. He also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1998 to 2002. He retired from the USAF with the rank of colonel.
1955Max Pechstein, German painter and academic (born 1881)[†]
Hermann Max Pechstein was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and a member of the Die Brücke group. He fought on the Western Front during World War I and his art was classified as Degenerate Art by the Nazis. More than 300 paintings were removed from German Museums during the Nazi era.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]