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rejects compensation; admits attack but holds it justified since craft was over Chinese territory in war zone
Natl Guard uses 7 tanks to quell threatened new violence, Clinton; illus; Adj Gen Henry says troops will remain until peace is restored; stresses troops are not used to force integration or oppose it; illus; Capt Dealy puts cost of using Guard at $10,000 a day; some newsmen and photographers barred from pro-segregation rally near Clinton; R Stolley of Life repts 150 attended; identities some as participants in earlier violence; Guard protects Negro sailor J Chandler passing through Clinton
Nasser comments on Brit spy case; says existence of alleged ring has been known for 2 yrs but not considered dangerous till 4 mos ago
W P Reuther hopes AFL-CIO will raise $4 million in voluntary contributions, TV int
112 reptd killed, 29 hurt when rr bridge collapses, tumbling 2 coaches into rain-swollen stream, Mahbubnager, Hyderabad State; map; worst train disasters recalled
1956Jishu Dasgupta, Indian actor and director (died 2012)[†]
Jishu Dasgupta was an Indian Bengali television director and actor. After suffering from cancer for nine months, he died on 21 December 2012 in a hospital in Kolkata.
1956Pat McGeown, Irish republican activist (died 1996)[†]
Pat "Beag" McGeown was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
1956Stephen Woolley, English director and producer[†]
Stephen Woolley is an English filmmaker and actor. His career has spanned four decades, for which he was awarded the BAFTA award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in February 2019. As a producer, he has been Oscar-nominated for The Crying Game (1992), and has produced multi-Academy Award nominated films including Mona Lisa (1986), Little Voice (1998), Michael Collins (1996), The End of the Affair (1999), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Carol (2016). He runs the production company Number 9 Films with his partner Elizabeth Karlsen.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]