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The City Planning Commission was criticized yesterday by Controller Lawrence E. Gerosa for not preparing a 1956 capital budget "based on existing conditions."
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J G Graham admits planting dynamite bomb on liner in plot to kill his mother, Mrs D King; bought $37,500 ins on her life just before take-off; FBI arrests him for sabotage; youth's background, previous arrests revd; details of plot; his, mother's pars; Patterson lauds investigators
performance opens Met season
USSR aide at UN says USSR rejects 18-nation pkg unless Outer Mongolia is included; deadlock with US looms; GB would accept 17 or 18
1955Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist[†]
Joseph Martin Leeway is a British musician and songwriter, who is best known as being a member of the pop band Thompson Twins, joining the band in 1981 after being one of their roadies.
1955The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.[†]
The Saint Petersburg Metro is a rapid transit system in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Construction began in early 1941, but was put on hold due to World War II and the subsequent Siege of Leningrad, during which the constructed stations were used as bomb shelters. It was finally opened on 15 November 1955.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]