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In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]
1955David Learner, British actor[†]
David Francis Somerville Learner is a British actor who is best known for playing Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Pickle in the CITV adventure game show Knightmare. He studied at RADA alongside Alan Rickman and Trevor Eve and has appeared in numerous stage plays and radio productions.
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French level 9 villages near Constantine
Benson welcomes USSR delegates, Washington; he and Matskevich exch gifts; Benson entertains group at luncheon featuring foods created by US Agr Dept research service; lauds delegates good will; gives them requested agr data; delegates most impressed by US mechanization gains; visit Mt Vernon; Matskevich lays wreath on G Washington tomb; USSR Embassy reception for delegates attended by Benson, Asst Sec Butz, and other US aides; illus; USSR permits reception to be televised by CBS, 1st TV broadcast ever made from any USSR embassy
Joint (Larkin) com opens hearing, NYC, on alleged communism in NYS summer camps; cites documents indicating exploitation of child campers is estab Communist tactic; Camp Kinderland mgr D Green testifies; identified by com as Communist and ex-officer of Internatl Workers Order (IWO), dissolved for pro-Communist activities; denounces probe; invokes 5th Amendment over 30 times; com links camp to IWO; H Sandler, officer of co operating Camp, testifies; invokes 5th Amendment when queried on Camp ties with IWO; former camper repts Communist system and heroes were glorified; Green por
US undecided on whether to vote to place Moroccan issue on UN agenda
US AEC Chmn Strauss says conf shows USSR lags behind US in development; says USSR leads US in developing nuclear scientists and engineers
A big question yesterday, as flood damage estimates in six Northeastern states ran near three billion dollars, was "Who's going to foot the bill?"
Israeli patrol captures Egyptian outpost near Mefalslm, Gaza strip; gives it up during cease-fire arranged by UN observers; 1 Egyptian dead, 4 wounded; each side claims clash was provoked to affect talks on Gaza; map
Commerce Dept pub code; 13 provisions limiting activities listed
Eisenhower interrupts Colo vacation, flies to stricken area; illus; explains aims of planned conf with Govs and ARC chmn Harriman, TV int, Denver; responding to Harriman wire, appeals for funds for ARC relief work; orders all necessary Fed funds made available for relief; SBA opens branches in disaster areas to speed business loans; sites listed
at least 10 children killed, 30 injured when Southern Ry freight train plows into school bus at grade crossing, Spring City; R Moore, bus driver, claims he did not see train; charged with manslaughter; map
Govt, private agencies intensify relief effort; stress disease prevention; AP lists 180 dead after Conn repts 60, not 68, bodies found; 74 missing, presumed dead in Conn, over 50 in Penna; Eisenhower declares SE NY, including Port Jervis, major disaster area upon Gov Harriman plea; SBA expands classification of disaster areas eligible for 3% loans to include all Conn and 12 counties in Mass, RI, NY, NJ; Brucker, after aerial survey of NY, NJ, Penna, asks better leadership and orgn for such emergencies; calls morale in stricken areas good; says people should have passed flood data to residents further downstream; ARC moves regional disaster hdqrs from Alexandria, Va, to NYC; repts at least 34,169 routed from homes, 439 dwellings destroyed, almost 14,000 damaged; NJ CD office advises on disease, accident prevention; drug cos rush supplies, offer to replace flood-damaged stocks; Dairymen's League Co-op Assn uses milk trucks to distribute water; list of newly declared disaster areas; Agr Dept offers surplus food stocks for relief; other data