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Bryant and Milam acquitted of murder; both face kidnapping charge in LeFlore County, scene of alleged abduction; illus; jury holds body too badly decomposed to be identified; racial tensions throughout trial recalled
over 40 killed, 150 hurt when 2 dynamite trucks explode after 1 crashes into passenger-freight train near Torreon; movie theatre balcony, 1 1/2 miles away, collapses; none injured
Yankees win 21st pennant; 6th in last 7 yrs under mgr Stengel
Molotov pledges USSR will study other nations proposals, s, Assembly; offers resolution asking UN study USSR May 10 proposals, others; says Dulles held control virtually unattainable; US reprs note Dulles held control unattainable in atmosphere of suspicion; Dulles says Molotov misquoted him, int, Washington; sees nothing new in s
White Paper shows Maclean, when he disappeared, was main suspect in probe begun in '49 into earlier leakage of Office data to USSR; leaves unexplained nature of leakage, transmission of data or kind of data Maclean, Burgess gave USSR; notes Maclean's professional competence; Office repr refuses to answer queries on Paper under Macmillan orders; Lipton finds Paper disappointing; Times holds it fails to erase doubts on security officers handling of affair; Office ascribes reticence to secrecy inherent in counter-espionage; notes circumstances leading to recalling of Maclean, Burgess from posts because of poor personal and professional behavior; repts neither belonged to Communist party despite Communist leanings while Cambridge U students
1955Riccardo Illy, Italian businessman and politician, President of Friuli Venezia Giulia[†]
Riccardo Illy is an Italian businessman and former politician.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]