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LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 22 -- Alert Notre Dame turned Purdue's passing attack into an Irish weapon and avenged its only 1954 defeat, 22 -- 7, today before a Ross-Ade Stadium record crowd of 55,500.
REVERED wherever French is understood, the 275-year - old Comedie Francaise is ready to make its first appearance on an American stage. Following its Canadian tour, the distinguished state-owned repertory company will settle down at the Broadway Theatre Tuesday night for a four-week engagement.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 22 -- Fired-up Minnesota shook proud Michigan to its foundations today before the top ranked football team in the land wiped out a two-touch down deficit for a 14-13 victory.
Lr to Eisenhower lauding conditional acceptance of USSR proposal for armament inspection teams at key points
picture article on people and indus including Schneider and Hoffmann during campaign
1955Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.[†]
Ngô Đình Diệm was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 coup d'état.
1955The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to unite with West Germany instead of France.[†]
Saarland is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of 2,570 km2 (990 sq mi) and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in population apart from Bremen. Saarbrücken is the state capital and largest city; other cities include Neunkirchen and Saarlouis. Saarland is mainly surrounded by the department of Moselle in France to the west and south and the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany to the north and east; it also shares a small border about 8 kilometres long with the canton of Remich in Luxembourg to the northwest.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]