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NYC Special Sessions Ct rules defendant cannot be criminally convicted for failure to file state income tax return unless willfulness is proved, J J Gannon case; Asst Dist Atty Leiman comments; repts appeal weighed; Tax Comm aide comment
Eisenhower vows he will repts studies begun by Western Big-3 on measures to be applied by them or UN to prevent hostilities; Big-3 reprs meet
Gen MacArthur charges against G Burgess mentioned in H S Truman's memoirs
Eisenhower holds restoration would nullify soil bank creation to curb surpluses, reply to Aiken query on his position
Gardner resigns, announcement at news conf; views seen conflicting with those of Defense Dept chiefs, Pres Eisenhower; Gardner says crux of dispute was inability to get $200 million to spur research and development program; Eisenhower says every effort is made to spur program, news conf; warns against over reliance on intercontinental types; calls them less accurate than bombs; says they would have to be used in such numbers as to produce 'complete devastation'; surprised at Jackson, Symington views
1956Phil Ford, American basketball player and coach[†]
Phil Jackson Ford Jr. is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He graduated from Rocky Mount Senior High School in 1974, and had an All-American college career with the North Carolina Tar Heels.
1956Mookie Wilson, American baseball player and coach[†]
William Hayward "Mookie" Wilson is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder and coach who played for the New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays over 12 major league seasons. He is best remembered as the Met who hit the ground ball that rolled through Bill Buckner's legs in the bottom of the 10th inning of game six of the 1986 World Series.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]