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AP final rept shows 609 died in traffic accidents, 173 in fires and other accidents, in highest holiday wk-end toll; Safety Council pres Dearborn comment
none hurt as USAF F-86 crashes in residential st, Levittown, NY; car and bicycle destroyed; pilot parachutes to safety; illus
Estimate Bd seen approving expense allowance rise; to weigh proposal to raise Council Majority Leader (Sharkey) pay by $4,500, Minority Leader (Isaacs) pay by $3,000; Dir Beame urges approval; Isaacs to oppose rises; will refuse to accept his; Stark aide Stavisky, Wagner aide Condello to get rises
US Appeals Ct rules union may picket consumers using services provided by a struck employer and ind cos doing 'farmed-out' struck work of employer, Royal Typewriter case; definition of secondary boycott under Taft-Hartley law seen revised
BONN, Germany, Dec. 27 -- The committee designated by Parliament to screen senior officer material has approved ninety applicants for generalships and colonelcies in West Germany's armed forces.
1955Stephen Frost, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter[†]
Stephen Frederick Eustace Frost is an English actor and comedian, best known for his work on Whose Line Is It Anyway? as well as several projects with comedy partner Mark Arden.
1955Liu Xiaobo, Chinese author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)[†]
Liu Xiaobo was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Chinese Communist Party one-party rule in China. He was arrested numerous times, and was described as China's most prominent dissident and the country's most famous political prisoner. On 26 June 2017, he was granted medical parole after being diagnosed with liver cancer; he died a few weeks later on 13 July 2017.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]