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moderate nationalists appalled by Catroux resignation; see selves stripped of pol authority; Com of Sixty-one issues communique denouncing demonstrators, demanding single electoral coll; Eurs' Pub Safety Com demands Mollet abandon idea of single coll; Mollet confs with reprs of factions; French kill 2 rebels, capture 49 in day
10,000 more meters to be installed; 1st 200 start operation on 14th St; truckers object; 36,000 meters collecting over $6 million yrly seen in operation by June; Wiley comments
Prime Min Eden says recognition of Peiping has been useful, not only to GB, press conf, Ottawa
Lucy threatens suit unless reinstated within 48 hrs; blames minority group and outsiders for furor; Carmichael, at faculty meeting, defends trustees action; stresses emergency; minority of 400 faculty members hail profs opposing trustees; student groups move to counter demonstrators; Univ Student Govt Assn Legis scores 'mob violence'; claims meet demonstrators were not students; Tuscaloosa News scares trustees; other leading Ala dailies score demonstrations; student member of Dallas County White Citizens Council hails exclusion of Lucy; NAACP, ACLU and Amer Com for Cultural Freedom protest
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7--A special investigating committee of senior Senators moved quickly today to determine whether an improper attempt had been made to influence a colleague's vote on the natural gas bill
1956Marques Johnson, American basketball player and sportscaster[†]
Marques Kevin Johnson is an American former professional basketball player and character actor who is a basketball analyst for the Milwaukee Bucks on Bally Sports Wisconsin. He played as a small forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1977 to 1989, where he was a five-time All-Star. He played the majority of his career with the Bucks.
1956Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager (born 1862)[†]
Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack, was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, and team owner. Mack holds records for the most wins (3,731), losses (3,948), ties (76), and games managed (7,755) in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. His victory total is 847 more than the second-highest: Tony La Russa's 2,884 wins. Mack's lead in career losses is even greater, with 1,449 more than La Russa's 2,499. Mack also has 17 more ties than the next-closest manager, Clark Griffith, who has 59.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]