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attends IAM conv; returns, Chicago
Vice Pres Nixon hails Adm refusal to surrender Quemoy and Matsu to Peiping
Lacoste repts 200,000 reinforcements arrived, last 2 mos; warns rebels means for peace are at hand; notes civil pacification plans; Algiers Mayor Chevallier pessimistic
Issues statement defending Atty Gen Javits against charqes of Communist ties
Gov Chandler orders Guard to Sturgis, Ky; many white students at hs leave classes as Negroes enroll; Guard charges into crowd to clear path for Negroes after classes; illus; 7 demonstrators held for breaking peace; fined; illus; state policeman in civilian dress assaulted by 2; 1 held; state police conf on setting up guard around Negro dist; Col Smith and Deputy Comr Sturgill conf with Chandler; integration takes place in most dists, Ky, with only minor incidents; these laid to pranksters; 4 of 5 whites at Matoaka HS absent to protest admission of 28 Negroes; similar protests at Springton and Bluefield; school officials say some parents spur protests; cross burned at Huntington HS; Negroes admitted there for 1st time
1956Michael Feinstein, American singer and pianist[†]
Michael Jay Feinstein is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an archivist and interpreter for the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988, he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theater songs. Feinstein is also a multi-platinum-selling, five-time Grammy-nominated recording artist. He is the founder of the Great American Songbook Foundation and the artistic director for Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana.
1956Byron Stevenson, Welsh footballer (died 2007)[†]
William Byron Stevenson was a Welsh international footballer.
1956Diane Warren, American songwriter[†]
Diane Eve Warren is an American songwriter. She has won an Academy Honorary Award, Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and three consecutive Billboard Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year from 1997 to 1999. She first gained recognition for her work on DeBarge's 1985 single "Rhythm of the Night". By the late 1980s, she joined the record label EMI, where she became the first songwriter in the history of Billboard magazine to have written seven hit songs, each recorded by different artists, prompting EMI's UK Chairman Peter Reichardt to call her "the most important songwriter in the world".
1956C. B. Fry, English cricketer, academic, and politician (born 1872)[†]
Charles Burgess Fry was an English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant – and fun ... he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age."
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]