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Govt orders draft of legal measures to seize pipelines unless tax deadlock is broken; Salem threatens added 50% penalty for failure to meet deadline on returns; Trans-Arabian denies confs with Govt; spokesman comments; other cos affected noted
offers amended Western proposal for internatl bd to operate Suez Canal, London conf
Wiley asks City Planning Comm for $25,289,520, '57 capital budget
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1956Kim Cattrall, English-Canadian actress[†]
Kim Victoria Cattrall is a British, Canadian, and American actress. She is known for her portrayal of Samantha Jones on HBO's Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the 2002 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in the feature films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as guest starring on its revival And Just Like That... (2023).
1956Jon Tester, American farmer and politician[†]
Raymond Jon Tester is an American politician and farmer who served from 2007 to 2025 as a United States senator from Montana and from 2005 to 2007 as president of the Montana Senate. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the most recent Democrat to hold statewide or congressional office in Montana. Tester served in the Montana Senate from 1999 to 2007. He is currently a political analyst for MSNBC.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]