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Leads prayer at Cong opening; illus
Gov Harriman proposals to raise dairy income outlined
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3--President Eisenhower will send to Congress Monday a new plan designed to cut by as much as 20 per cent the big surplusproducing crops of corn, wheat, cotton and rice.
final returns for Met France; Communists have 145 seats, Poujadists 51; French stunned by outlook for further instability; Popular Repub leader Deputy Lecourt renews party call for alliance of all parties except extreme Left and Right; Mendes-France says Radical party itself must decide on whether to cooperate; claims 54 followers among Radicals; Interior Min gives him 34; observers give Mendes-France-led Radical-Socialist Repub Front 160 seats, Faure-Pinay-led group 190 seats; Communists get about 25% of votes cast, 0.09% less than in '51; call for Popular Front Govt; Poujadists get 12.1% of votes, equal to total of Radical bloc; seats lost by Inds, Popular Repubs, Socialists, Gaullists; last lose most; Faure holds election shows need for Const reform; '51, '56 seats by parties compared; Poujade illus
poll by Information Min Inst of Pub Opinion among 400 Madrid U students shows large majority opposed to totalitarian regime; 82% rept no confidence in authorities; 74% see ruling class incompetent; Prof Pinilles analysis of poll not pub but distributed in official circles; poll linked to Franco warnings to youth; some responses noted
1956Tom Borton, American jazz saxophonist, songwriter and composer (died 2011)[†]
Thomas William Borton was an American jazz saxophonist, songwriter and composer, and was the founder and CEO of Los Angeles Post Music, Inc.
1956Zehava Gal-On, Israeli politician[†]
Zehava Galon, is an Israeli politician, the president of the research institute ZULAT for Equality and Human Rights and former leader of Meretz.
1956Ann Magnuson, American actress and performance artist[†]
Ann Magnuson is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer. She was described by The New York Times in 1990 as "An endearing theatrical chameleon who has as many characters at her fingertips as Lily Tomlin does".
1956Bernard Sumner, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]
Bernard Sumner is an English musician. He is a founding member of the bands Joy Division, New Order, Electronic, and Bad Lieutenant. Sumner was an early force in several areas, including the post-punk, synth-pop, and techno music scenes, as well as their various related genres, and was an early influence on the Manchester music scene that presaged the Madchester movement of the late 1980s centred on Factory Records and The Haçienda club in Manchester. He and drummer Stephen Morris are the only two continuous members of New Order, who have also appeared on all the band's albums.
1956The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.[†]
The National Radical Union was a Greek political party formed in 1956 by Konstantinos Karamanlis, mostly out of the Greek Rally party.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]