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India to buy USSR production equipment during next 3 yrs
20 scientists resign from Lockheed in dispute over roles of scientific research personnel and aeronautical engineers in development; lab and sec heads involved in upheaval believed largest of kind in armament field since World War II; computer controls lab dir Barnes repts group will set up Systems Research Corp, headed by Dr Krause, to do consulting work in field; says Lt Gen Quesada will not join orgn; Lockheed says resignations will not impair programs and that replacements will be from airplane divs; outside sources doubt comparable replacements; Krause and Barnes leave for Washington to conf with armed forces officials on action; resignees and some replacements listed
observer Casardi (Italy) blames USSR, Kase blames China; de Erice silent on blame, confident Spain will be admitted; Japanese Amb Yoshizawa had repeatedly urged Chiang to back pkg
Speaker Rayburn sees next Cong session passing Fed aid bill
Mississippi Valley Generating Co files suit in US Claims Ct, Washington, for $3,534,778 for expenses in connection with contract; asks no damages; Dixon confident; Co obligations listed; Anderson to ask Cong name special atty to represent Govt; doubts Atty Gens Dept would press case; backed by Kefauver
1955Jane Crafter, Australian golfer[â ]
Jane Crafter is an Australian professional golfer.
1955Jill Pipher, American mathematician and academic[â ]
Jill Catherine Pipher is an American mathematician. She served as president of the American Mathematical Society. and president of the Association for Women in Mathematics. She was the first director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, an NSF-funded mathematics institute based in Providence, Rhode Island.
1955Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.[â ]
Albania, officially the Republic of Albania, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south. With an area of 28,748 km2 (11,100 sq mi), it has a varied range of climatic, geological, hydrological and morphological conditions. Albania's landscapes range from rugged snow-capped mountains in the Albanian Alps and the Korab, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains, to fertile lowland plains extending from the Adriatic and Ionian seacoasts. Tirana is the capital and largest city in the country, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, and Shkodër.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[â ]