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July 8, 1956

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Headlines from July 8, 1956

Blame for Riots Shifts; POLAND DISAVOWS 'REVENGE' AS AIM

By Harry Gilroy Special To the New York Times

Govt tells Brit Laborites trials will not be motivated by revenge, reply to Laborites lr to State Council Chmn Zawadzki; regrets deaths; repeats that subversive agents caused violence; MP H Gaitskell comments, s, Colchester; repts reaching Berlin indicate Cyrankiewicz faction winning over Ochab faction; charges of provocation by Western agents continue; Polish newsmen rept some Gers allegedly linked to Gehlen orgn held, Poznan; Trybuna Ludu blames party and trade union officials for conditions leading to riots; W Berlin Telegraf repts entire Poznan police force replaced for failure to resist rioters; some 1,000 Polish Amers demonstrate at hdqrs of UN and of USSR and Polish UN delegations, NYC; break through police cordon at delegations hdqrs, try to break into Polish bldg; none hurt or arrested; action sponsored by Polish Youth Assn and Polish Amer Cong div; Assn aide surprised by size of crowd

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JORDAN DEMANDS BRITAIN HELP HER IF ISRAEL ATTACKS; Warns That Mutual Defense Pact Faces Abrogation if London Fails to Act on It Pledge Made to Burns JORDAN DEMANDS BRITAIN HELP HER

By Osgood Caruthers Special To the New York Times

Jordanian C/S Maj Gen Nuwar promises Burns to pull back Jerusalem troops if given UN assurance there is no build-up; Burns admits Israel has not allowed on-the-spot inspection; Nuwar says fear of Israeli attack was fanned by Burns rept that Ben Gurion demanded free access to 3 Jerusalem sites; Israel repts Jordanians fire on patrol W of Jerusalem

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Injury Trials in City Delayed for Years; INJURY SUITS HERE FACE LONG DELAYS

By Unknown Author

Queens resident seeking jury trial of personal injury case waits avg 3 yrs, 8 mos, longest of anyone in US; actual case cited; delays in other boros noted; shortage of ct personnel, rise in auto accident and injury cases, other factors blamed; table shows population and auto regis changes in 1st, 2d and 10th judicial dists and mos of delay faced by claimants in personal injury cases in each county as of May; pre-trial confs among justice and opposing attys are partial remedy; greater use of lower cts, efforts to reach pre-trial settlements proposed as solution

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Notable Births

Terry Puhl

1956Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player and coach[โ€ ]

Terry Stephen Puhl is a Canadian former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a outfielder from 1977 to 1991, most prominently as a member of the Houston Astros where he helped the franchise win its first-ever National League Western Division title and postseason berth in 1980.

Notable Deaths

Giovanni Papini

1956Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author, and critic (born 1881)[โ€ ]

Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholicism, and went from convinced interventionism โ€“ before 1915 โ€“ to an aversion to war. In the 1930s, after moving from individualism to conservatism, he finally became a fascist, while maintaining an aversion to Nazism.

Historical Context for July 8, 1956

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