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Pres plans trip South after Feb med check-up, news conf
3d tube flooded as water cascades through emergency bulkhead door that was left open; 400 ft of new roadway under W 38th St, Dyer-12th Av, affected; main sec under Hudson River not flooded; diver closes door 12 hrs after seepage is discovered; illus; diagram
Larner issues another sec of rept; charges Mayor Thourot of Union City had to be paid 2% comm on 2 C Potts Assocs $1,584,500 Jersey City contracts on planning and supervising sewage disposal system and reconstructing water main, '50-53; Larner notes Thourot also serves as Hudson County Engineer and has an engineering practice; cites findings on exam of 'books'; repts City Engineer J Henderson got $10,000 in gratuities from firm
Repr Celler scores Dulles proposal; Sen Lehman says he cannot accede to request
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-- President Eisenhower received today a "friendly letter" from Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin, Soviet Premier, containing "certain ideas" about promoting world peace.
1956Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland.[â ]
Porkkalanniemi, often referred to simply as Porkkala, is a peninsula in the Gulf of Finland, located at Kirkkonummi (Kyrkslätt) in Southern Finland.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[â ]