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Questions US mil policies, final rept to Sec Wilson as Army C/S; assails 'overemphasis' on air power and massive retaliation with nuclear weapons at expense of ground forces, new weapons; says strategy fails to bar Communist aggressions
GSA ex-Admr Larson takes responsibility for contracts placed by Young, Cong com closed hearing
Dulles and Macmillan arrive; conf
NAACP Macon chap pros, answering Cook move, threatens to bum membership lists to protect teachers
Sen Investigations (McClellan) subcom to probe charges that Talbott violates conflict-of-interest laws by continuing assn with P B Mulligan & Co as special partner while in post of Air Force Sec; por
1955Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.[†]
The Nobel Prizes are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. The original Nobel Prizes covered five fields: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace, specified in Nobel's will. A sixth prize, the Prize in Economic Sciences, was established in 1968 by Sveriges Riksbank in memory of Alfred Nobel. The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]