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WASHINGTON, March 29-- United States officials were hopeful today that continued American use of the Keflavik air base in Iceland could be arranged.
WASHINGTON, March 29-- Herbert Hoover Jr. said today that he was all wrong when he told Congress there was a multimillion-dollar trade from Nationalist China to the Communist mainland.
41 Syrian, 5 Israeli prisoners exchd at border under UN truce comm supervision; most Syrian were captured in Dec 11 '55 raid; Jordanian and Lebanese reprs to ask US to 'clarify' proposal; Syria and Egypt indicate they do not object to Hammarskjold mission if it is limited to pacifying borders; Israel repts Egyptian killed, 4 wounded in clashes, Gaza strip
Williams reads 16 names of union officials, business men and racketeers, some of whom were closely assoc with L (Lepke) Buchalter and J (Gurrah) Shapiro, to prospective jurors; regular Mar jury charges 5 Yale Transportation Co employes with stealing over $100,000 in mdse since '54
1956Bill Butler, Scottish educator and politician[†]
Bill Butler is a Scottish Labour Co-operative Councillor. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Anniesland from a by-election in 2000 until losing his seat in the 2011 election.
1956Juanito Oiarzabal, Spanish mountaineer[†]
Juan Eusebio Oiarzabal Urteaga, commonly known as Juanito Oiarzabal, is a noted Spanish Basque mountaineer. He has written four books on the subject. He was the 6th man to reach all 14 eight-thousander summits, and the third to do so without supplemental oxygen. He was the first person to climb the top three summits twice and the oldest climber to summit Kangchenjunga, at almost 53, until Carlos Fontan did so in 2014, at 75 years old. In 2004, he lost all his toes to frostbite after summiting K2.
1956Paul Reiser, American actor and comedian[†]
Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He played the roles of Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom My Two Dads, Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom Mad About You, Modell in the 1982 film Diner, and Detective Jeffrey Friedman in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. He has gained recognition for his roles as Jim Neiman in the 2014 film Whiplash and Dr. Sam Owens in the Netflix series Stranger Things.
1956Shahla Sherkat, Iranian journalist and author[†]
Shahla Sherkat is an Iranian journalist, publisher, author, feminist, and women's rights activist. She is a prominent Persian feminist author and one of the pioneers of Women's rights movement in Iran.
1956Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English author and poet (born 1875)[†]
Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley and E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist and humorist and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]