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White House statement pledges US aid to any nation subjected to aggression
WASHINGTON, April 9-- President Eisenhower and Republican Congressional leaders plunged into a last-ditch fight today for an Administration farm bill.
Min Kabanov sees total output at 135 million tons by '60, s, UN ECE
5 recruits drown, 1 missing, Parris Is, after S/Sgt M C McKeon leads platoon of 75 trainees on night march into swamp; map; early repts that march was disciplinary denied by survivors; Corps silent; full probe begun; Gen Pate, Brig Gen Roberts at scene; Pate comments; survivors describe march; victims listed
COLOMBO, Ceylon, April 9-- The great challenge--and the great opportunity--facing United States foreign policy is communism's eager pursuit of nationalist movements all over the world.
1956Carol V. Robinson, English chemist and academic[†]
Dame Carol Vivien Robinson is a British chemist and former president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2018–2020). She was a Royal Society Research Professor and is the Dr Lee's Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and a professorial fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She is the founding director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford, and she was previously professor of mass spectrometry at the chemistry department of the University of Cambridge.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]