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Series of articles, Eisenhower's 4 Yrs, analyzing Adm policies
Fed grand jury indicts J M Neff, E Patman and Superior Oil Co following probe of lobbying in connection with Fulbright-Harris bill; H B Keck not named; 6-count indictment charges conspiracy to violate Fed Lobbying Act, violation of US Code prohibiting gifts to members of Cong, offer of $2,500 to Sen Case on Jan 25, collection of funds to aid passage of legis, attempt to persuade Sens Hruska and Curtis to vote for bill, failure to register as lobbyists; 10 overt acts charged
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C., July 24--S/Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon led his platoon so far into Ribbon Creek that he was swimming and treading water shortly before six of his men drowned, two survivors of the night march testified today.
House votes $3,195,000 for hydroelec power projects
JERUSALEM, July 24--Maj. Gen. E.L.M. Burns, United Nations truce supervisor, warned both Israel and Jordan tonight against any attempt to seize Mount Scopus by military force.
1956Frances Arnold, American scientist and engineer[â ]
Frances Hamilton Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes.
1956Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SSÂ Andrea Doria collides with the MSÂ Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.[â ]
Nantucket is an island in the state of Massachusetts in the United States, about 30 miles (48Â km) south of the Cape Cod peninsula. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government. Nantucket is the southeasternmost town in both Massachusetts and the New England region. The name "Nantucket" is adapted from similar Algonquian names for the island.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[â ]