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Shivers says Stevenson lacks qualifications for Pres; gives impression he will bock Eisenhower; consensus of Govs is that Stevenson has insurmountable lead for nomination; Shivers to back 'practically anybody' against Stevenson; opposes 3d-party suggestions; lauds Lausche
IUE, GE sign 5-yr pact without guaranteed annual wage provision; pact is subject to 30-day rev in '58 instead; grants 3% pay rise for each of 1st 3 yrs with minimum hrly rise of 4 1/2¢, 5¢ in 4th, 5th yr, other benefits; Carey calls pact best ever, worth at least 40¢ an hr over 5 yrs; IUE conf bd to act Aug 25; similar pacts with other unions likely
Bulgaria apologizes to US, offers compensation for Amers
NNSC defies SK ultimatum; say it will stay until ordered out by UN; urges Mil Armistice Comm take 'appropriate steps'; US troops reptdly ring truce compound with machine guns; SK police say US troops killed 1 Korean, wounded 2 near Inchon; 8th Army probe showed no US weapons were fired; mob illus dispersing under tear gas attack
Homemade time bomb found in workroom
1955Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875)[†]
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
1955James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)[†]
James Batcheller Sumner was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley. He was also the first to prove that enzymes are proteins.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]