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May 23, 1956

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CONVICTS TO GET CANCER INJECTION; 96 at the Ohio State Prison to Aid Fight on Disease Convicts to Get Cancer Injection To Help Try to Solve the Disease Live Cells to Be Injected

By George Barrett

96 Ohio State Penitentiary inmates volunteer to be injected with live cancer cells in study by Sloan-Kettering Inst and Ohio State U to determine how cancer cells are killed off in normal body; only 25 volunteers had been asked; drs stress danger is minimal since any resulting growth would spread slowly and be removed quickly by surgery; some convicts' reasons for volunteering noted; test procedure outlined; Dr Doan heads study

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Teachers Dismayed Over Pay Rise List; PAY RISE SCALES DISMAY TEACHERS Increases for Principals Silver Warns on Boycott

By Gene Currivan

Bd pub schedule; reprs of 15 teacher orgns at meeting denounce it, charge Bd disregards teachers; Jansen defends rises for his staff members; Silver says Bd weighs extra pay for extracurricular work; teacher reprs see it no solution; further data on schedule; Silver advises teachers against seeking further allowances in '56; Cogen says Bd neglected to include pay rises in budget request; urges 'bonafide' talks with teachers; Roy charges insincerity in Bd meetings with Wagner

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Nehru Calls for Cease-Fire In Algeria as a 'First Step'; India's Prime Minister Offers 5-Point Plan --Backs Nationalists but Lauds French --Mendes-France May Quit Cabinet TRUCE IN ALGERIA ASKED BY NEHRU

By A.m. Rosenthal Special To the New York Times

Nehru urges cease-fire as 1st step to negotiations based on recognition of Algeria as 'natl entity,' on equality of peoples in Algeria, s, Indian Parliament; backs nationalist demands but lauds French; does not speak of independence

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Notable Births

Andrea Pazienza

1956Andrea Pazienza, Italian illustrator and painter (died 1988)[†]

Andrea Pazienza was an Italian comics artist and painter.

Ursula Plassnik

1956Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Austria[†]

Ursula Plassnik is an Austrian diplomat and politician. She was Foreign Minister of Austria between October 2004 and December 2008. She has served as the Austrian ambassador to Switzerland from 2016 to 2021.

Buck Showalter

1956Buck Showalter, American baseball player, coach, and manager[†]

William Nathaniel "Buck" Showalter III is an American professional baseball manager. He served as manager of the New York Yankees (1992–1995), Arizona Diamondbacks (1998–2000), Texas Rangers (2003–2006), Baltimore Orioles (2010–2018) and New York Mets (2022–2023). He also is a former professional Minor League Baseball player and television analyst for ESPN and the YES Network.

Notable Deaths

Gustav Suits

1956Gustav Suits, Latvian-Estonian poet and politician (born 1883)[†]

Gustav Suits is considered one of the greatest Estonian poets. He was also an early leader of the literary movement group Noor-Eesti.

Historical Context for May 23, 1956

In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]