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The Board of Education has approved a new teacher salary schedule. It will increase salaries for 40,000 teachers and other school personnel by $21,000,000.
Testament warning against Stalin personality pub in part by Komsomolskaya Pravda, Moscow, but without ref to document
WASHINGTON, May 18-- Grave interservice differences are afflicting the armed forces.
primary; McKay leads Hitchcock; tabulation
H E Stassen lauds cut as 'initiative we wanted them to take,' press conf; admits cut will not diminish overall mil strength; bars comment on Dulles views; cites probable factors behind cut
1956Oliver Letwin, English philosopher and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster[†]
Sir Oliver Letwin is a British politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dorset from 1997 to 2019. Letwin was elected as a member of the Conservative Party, but sat as an independent after having the whip removed in September 2019. He was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer under Michael Howard and Shadow Home Secretary under Iain Duncan Smith. He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 2014 to 2016.
1956Martyn Ware, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer[†]
Martyn Ware is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and music programmer. As a founding member of both the Human League and Heaven 17, Ware co-wrote hit songs such as "Being Boiled" and "Temptation".
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]