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28-mi Suffern-Yonkers sec ready, putting entire toll length of Thruway into operation; map; Harriman, other officials to be at ceremonies; cut-off routes discussed; future revenues noted
Danish newsman H Bonde-Hendriksen tells how he helped John escape from E Berlin; repts John version of how he was abducted, how he was detained in E Ger and USSR
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 14 -- Amid cheers, sixteen new states were welcomed into United Nations membership tonight.
some UN sources see USSR conditioning Japan's admission in '56 on seating Communists; procedures for accrediting reprs in Assembly and Council compared
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1955Hector Sants, English banker[†]
Sir Hector William Hepburn Sants is a British investment banker. He was appointed chief executive officer of the Financial Services Authority in July 2007 and stepped down in June 2012. He took up a new position with Barclays Bank at the end of January 2013, but resigned from the bank on 13 November 2013.
1955Paul Simonon, English singer-songwriter and bass player[†]
Paul Gustave Simonon is an English musician and artist best known as the bassist for the Clash. More recent work includes his involvement in the supergroup the Good, the Bad & the Queen and playing on the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach in 2010, which saw Simonon reunite with The Clash guitarist Mick Jones and Blur frontman Damon Albarn – and which also led to Simonon becoming the live band's touring bassist for Gorillaz's Escape to Plastic Beach Tour. Simonon is also an established visual artist.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]