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US Sen Kefauver cites nation as mkt for US wheat surpluses, s, Iowa
Mahoney, Heck, Harriman and aides agree on compromise set of 'humanizing' amendments; details not revealed; fail to agree on gen tax cut; Harriman sets further confs; Carlino says Repubs will bar suggestion to drop 500,000 from tax rolls
Times repts ex-Gov Talmadge will seek Sen George's seat; dispatch quoted
attacks Sec Dulles for saying USSR policy fails, Sen s
UN Sec Gen Hammarskjold sees no basis for 'panicky reactions' to situation, news conf; sees no reason for UN action now; sees basis for some optimism; repts he is making contact with reprs of all 'interested powers'; refuses comment on whether Western Big 3 have right to act outside UN; queried on whether Israel can count on UN aid in event of war; says UN role is preventive and intervention would depend on circumstances
1956Francis Hughes, Irish Republican, hunger striker (died 1981)[†]
Francis Joseph Sean Hughes was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Northern Ireland until his arrest following a shoot-out with the British Army in which a British soldier was killed. At his trial, he was sentenced to a total of 83 years' imprisonment; he died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike in HM Prison Maze. Hughes was one of 22 Irish republicans who died on hunger-strike between 1917 and 1981.
1956Terry Leahy, English businessman[†]
Sir Terence Patrick Leahy is a British businessman, previously the CEO of Tesco, the largest British retailer and the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues. In 2011, he became a senior advisor at private equity company Clayton Dubilier & Rice.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]