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strike ends as ILA issues return-to-work order; leaders to continue campaign against Comm; Bradley hints strike unless Comm is curbed; conf with Gov Harriman aide Gutman; Lane deplores walkout; shippers fear effects on port trade; Queen Mary, other liners sail
repts from southern provinces show mutiny is becoming popular uprising without organized pol leadership; Govt forces in Juba; Helm in Cairo; map
S, Amer Bar Assn, stressing peace with justice; holds abandonment of internatl subversion a requisite; opens observance of 200th birth anniv of Chief Justice Marshall
Reston comment; links Eisenhower s with new policy aimed at moderating 'Geneva' optimism lest latter indicate US satisfaction with status quo; speculation on coming Big-4 foreign mins conf
Matskevich repts on US tour in Voice of Amer broadcast to USSR, 1st broadcast by currently active official; summarizes tour observations, int; says he would like to transplant Ford assembly-line technique to USSR agr; backs USSR collective system; says he cannot understand US price-supports system; US delegate J M Jacobs arrives, NYC; comments on tour
1955John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (died 2004)[†]
John Alexander McGeoch was a Scottish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist of the rock bands Magazine (1977–1980) and Siouxsie and the Banshees (1980–1982).
1955Gerd Müller, German businessman and politician[†]
Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, who is currently serving as Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization since 2021.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]