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Pres gets 185,583 votes, Oregon; Nixon 32,878 write-ins; tabulation; Hagerty says Pres health will be 'legitimate issue,' TV int; says White House is ready with replies; Sen Bridges sees any Dem attacks on health rebounding, TV int; sees attempts to bar Nixon as candidate continuing
Calif Inst of Tech faculty rept, Resources of the World: A Speculative Projection, envisions new machine civilization in 21st century; sees critical need for brain power
have audience with Pope; get medal commemg Pope's Pontificate; illus; Truman sightseeing hampered by twisted ankle
Wagner names 36-member Citizens Com on the Cts within NYC; A T Klots chmn
USAF staff analysis condemns Nike as unfit, sees replacement by Nike B as costly, doubts potential of Nike B; charges Army Missile Master system is wasteful duplication of USAF SAGE System; holds best defense lies in combination of radar warning nets, supersonic fighters and USAF missiles; Sec Brucker, Gens Taylor and Mickelsen statements lauding Nike recalled
1956Harry Bensley, English businessman and adventurer (born 1877)[†]
Harry Bensley was an English rake and adventurer, best remembered as the subject of an extraordinary wager between John Pierpont Morgan and Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale. How much of his story is based on fact is unclear.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]