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Pres substitutes pork bacon for beef bacon at Benson behest; recovery continues; Pres strolls in hosp corridor; stands to shave; bro Milton visits; Pres paints; with wife sees movie
Repubs urge Benson adopt Govt land rental program to bolster income
Minn bids Stevenson enter Mar 20th primary; pledges unofficially to place its delegates at his disposal; Stevenson, in reply, says he will make plans known in Nov; seen entering primaries in Fla, Neb and possibly Calif and NH; Minn central com names Humphrey, Freeman and Lt Gov Rolvaag as delegates at large pledged to Stevenson; texts of bid and Stevenson reply
ben Moulay Arafa renounces right to throne in favor of ben Youssef, lr to Coty; ben Youssef arrives, France, from Madagascar; French Govt issues statement welcoming developments settling dynastic issue; ben Youssef to settle in Beauvallon; ben Slimane leaves Rabat to see him; Dem Independence party reprs demand his return to throne
he arrives with family, France; por
1955Michalis Chrisochoidis, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Public Order[†]
Michalis Chrisochoidis is a Greek politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Athens B2 constituency with New Democracy. He currently serves as Minister for Citizen Protection in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He previously served in the same role on four separate occasions, as a member of PASOK and an independent politician. He has also served as Minister for the Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping (2010), Minister for Regional Development and Competitiveness (2010–2011), Minister for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping (2011–2012), Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (2013–2015) and Minister for Health (2023–2024).
1955Susan Orlean, American journalist and author[†]
Susan Orlean is an American journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside. In 2021, Orlean joined the writing team of HBO comedy series How To with John Wilson.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]