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March 19, 1956

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GOV. FREEMAN SEES STEVENSON SWEEP; Minnesotan Predicts 2-to-1 Margin in Vote Tomorrow --Kefauver Is Optimistic Greater Difficulty Seen GOV. FREEMAN SEES STEVENSON SWEEP

By Richard Amper

ends Minn tour, returns to Washington for vote on farm bill

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Loyalty to Stalin Persists Among Murmansk People; Youths Shocked and Dismayed by New Evaluation of Leader--Party Faces a Difficult Re-education Task MURMANSK FOLK LOYAL TO STALIN

By Jack Raymond Special To the New York Times

many reptd shocked and dismayed

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PRESIDENT SENDS FOREIGN AID PLEA TO CAPITOL TODAY; Message to Ask 4.9 Billions --Long-Term Plan Faces Fight in Congress Has Mixed Feelings MESSAGE ON AID IS SLATED TODAY

By Allen Drury Special To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, March 18-- The Administration's proposal for long-term foreign aid commitments apparently is heading into stormy weather on Capitol Hill this week.

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ZECKENDORF BUYS THE LINCOLN HOTEL; Also Acquiring the Roosevelt in Washington--Cash Deal 'Close to $10,000,000' ZECKENDORF BUYS THE LINCOLN HERE Hotel Opened in 1928 Violations Reported Corrected

By Peter Kihss

Webb & Knapp pres Zeckendrof repts co subsidiary to buy hotel from M Kramer for some $10 million in cash and Lincoln Hotel of NYC

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HARDING PLEDGES FIRM CYPRUS GRIP; British Face 6-Month Fight He Says--Terrorists Kill Victim in a Church HARDING PLEDGES FIRM CYPRUS GRIP Worshiper Is Shot at Mass

By Homer Bigart Special To the New York Times.u.s. Army

NICOSIA, Cyprus, March 18 --Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the Governor of Cyprus, said today British forces might need six months to crush Greek Cypriote "terrorism" in the ...

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1956Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (died 2009)^[†]

Yegor Timurovich Gaidar was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author, and was the Acting Prime Minister of Russia from 15 June 1992 to 14 December 1992.

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In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people^[†]

Headlines from March 19, 1956

GOV. FREEMAN SEES STEVENSON SWEEP; Minnesotan Predicts 2-to-1 Margin in Vote Tomorrow --Kefauver Is Optimistic Greater Difficulty Seen GOV. FREEMAN SEES STEVENSON SWEEP

Loyalty to Stalin Persists Among Murmansk People; Youths Shocked and Dismayed by New Evaluation of Leader--Party Faces a Difficult Re-education Task MURMANSK FOLK LOYAL TO STALIN

PRESIDENT SENDS FOREIGN AID PLEA TO CAPITOL TODAY; Message to Ask 4.9 Billions --Long-Term Plan Faces Fight in Congress Has Mixed Feelings MESSAGE ON AID IS SLATED TODAY

ZECKENDORF BUYS THE LINCOLN HOTEL; Also Acquiring the Roosevelt in Washington--Cash Deal 'Close to $10,000,000' ZECKENDORF BUYS THE LINCOLN HERE Hotel Opened in 1928 Violations Reported Corrected

HARDING PLEDGES FIRM CYPRUS GRIP; British Face 6-Month Fight He Says--Terrorists Kill Victim in a Church HARDING PLEDGES FIRM CYPRUS GRIP Worshiper Is Shot at Mass

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