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Moscow talks deadlocked, in effect suspended after Shigemitsu confs with Khrushchev, Bulganin, Shepilov; Khrushchev unrelenting on Kunashiri, Etorofu; Shigemitsu admits impasse; to interrupt talks if necessary to attend London conf on Suez Canal
decree to end easy divorce laws set
bill vetoed would have set special taxing method for real estate investment trusts
Ital Line sues Swedish Line for $25 million; answers all points made in Swedish petition; urges ct deny Swedish exoneration plea; doubts right to seek liability limitation; denies moon was shining; says weather was foggy, ships met with Stockholm on Doria's starboard bow; says Doria veered to left (south); to file own liability limitation petition; Ali queries whether Capt Nordenson was on bridge at time of crash; agreement reached on pre-trial depositions; all available ship logs to be weighed by ct
HHFA regional admr Fried doubts Fed aid unless city 'shows more interest'; criticizes Estimate Bd delay on preliminary phase; Council on Housing Relocation Practices chmn Present holds Mayor's Slum Clearance Com filing of plans with HHFA bypasses Bd
1956Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician and academic[†]
Pierre-Louis Lions is a French mathematician. He is known for a number of contributions to the fields of partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. He was a recipient of the 1994 Fields Medal and the 1991 Prize of the Philip Morris tobacco and cigarette company.
1956Jackson Pollock, American painter (born 1912)[†]
Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was called all-over painting and action painting, since he covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style. This extreme form of abstraction divided critics: some praised the immediacy of the creation, while others derided the random effects.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]