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Wagner orders Pk Dept submit figures on cost of project; releases them to press after approving them; says Estimate Bd will rev financial arrangements between Dept and Tavern; may consider letting Bd handle similar projects in future; figures on project and Tavern renovation costs cited
NY Telephone urges PSC approve $15,759,000 rise to meet added cost of wage rises, new FCC depreciation allowance requirements; co optimistic; stresses move is not linked to '53 bid for $68,850,000 rise; effect on phone users noted
MINNEAPOLIS, May 4-- Methodist women won today the right to full clergy privileges in their church.
Eisenhower holds critics of defense program, particularly those who criticire strength of USAF, overlook large fleet of medium bombers and USN air arm, news conf comment on subcom testimony; holds pub will be reassured when Cong gets all data on program; reiterates policy of basing mil strength on natl needs rather than numerically matching USSR
Loses eyesight; 4 specialists explain condition; Sec Mitchell voices sympathy, wire; rewards for assailant's arrest at $40,000; Post Syndicate pres Hall says Riesel column will be continued with aid of assistants
1956Steve Scott, American runner and coach[†]
Steve Scott is an American former track athlete who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. Track & Field News ranked Scott #1 in the U.S. on ten occasions, and eleven times during his career he was ranked in the top ten in the world by T&FN. Scott is also regarded as the founder of speed golf in 1979.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]