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Snyder says there is no guarantee Pres will not have another attack, news conf; says he is in good condition; holds it might be safer for Eisenhower to run for Pres again; Eisenhower hunts, plays bridge; White sees his tension eased when he announces future plans
ed in New Orleans Archdiocese pub warns RC legislators, La, they face automatic excommunication if they work or vote for legis to continue segregation of parochial schools; cites Ch canon; Rummel reptdly approves ed, but insists excommunication is not 'threat'; Gov-designate Long says Legis should not try to interfere with private schools; Repr Gravolet, who is among 4 RC legislators backing proposed legis putting Cath schools under segregation laws, pledges continued fight despite ed; Long sees proposed legis doomed; views on Rummel noted
Diefendorf Comm formally proposes program for fuel tax rise of $33 million annually; would spend about $72.5 million of revenue from existing fuel taxes on rds, set aside proceeds from tax rises in a hwy acct, pledging them to debt service and hwy bldg
Dulles holds Hoover responsible for tank deal, Sen com; Hoover accepts responsibility; Dulles declines to characterize embargo as inopportune; says US right to occupy air base at Dhahran might have been compromised if US withheld tanks; holds tanks could not be used for aggression against Israel
ct limits pickets to 105 at 4 plants; skirmishes continue; 23 arrested; total at 139; illus; Fed mediator sets meeting; details
1956In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.[†]
"On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" was a report by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, made to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956. Popularly known as the Secret Speech, this is something of a misnomer, as copies of the speech were read out at thousands of meetings of Communist Party and Komsomol organisations across the country. Khrushchev's speech was sharply critical of the rule of the deceased General Secretary and Premier Joseph Stalin, particularly with respect to the purges which had especially marked the last years of the 1930s. Khrushchev charged Stalin with having fostered a leadership cult of personality despite ostensibly maintaining support for the ideals of communism.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]