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traffic deaths at record 368, 3-day wk-end
China to release Bell, Cowart, Griggs July 10; Indian Red Cross gets rept from Chinese Red Cross, informs Brit Red Cross in Hong Kong
Sec Weeks sees record sales and output for rest of yr, rept on Commerce Dept surveys of 400 fields; estimates top earlier forecasts
nation tense as Peron sets 1st radio s since June 23; pub speculates he may resign; labor readies to act in his support; many AAA guns placed on and around Casa Rosada; M V Ordonez sons freed after 2 wks in jail; US Amb Nufer gives US policy
Dir Stassen repts free-world exports to bloc up 24% to $1.7 billion, '54, after easing of curbs, but vol down in '55, rept to Cong on Battle Act adm; shows trade with Communist China down slightly since '53
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]
