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September 10, 1956

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SUEZ TALKS END IN FAILURE; NASSER BARS CONTROL PLAN AS THREAT TO BRING STRIFE; MENZIES IS GRIM After Final Meeting, He Calls Situation 'Very, Very Grave' New Approach Asked SUEZ CANAL TALKS END IN DEADLOCK Menzies to Fly to London Facts About Meetings Nasser Challenges Data

By Osgood Caruthers Special To the New York Times

CAIRO, Sept. 9--The mission of the five-nation Suez committee ended tonight in complete failure to persuade President Gamel Abdel Nasser of Egypt to accept international control of the Sues' Canal.

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Nuclear Rocket Being Developed By a New Team at Los Alamos; U.S. TEAM WORKS ON ATOMIC ROCKET Dachau Park Stone Laid

By the Associated Press

cornerstone for memorial to victims laid; several hundred ex-inmates attend; design contest under way

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MOLLET ADAMANT ON SUEZ CONTROL; Says France Still Favors Use of Force if Needed to Internationalize Canal Mollet Is Firm on Suez Control; Favors Use of Force if Needed

By Harold Callender Special To the New York Times

Mollet urges spurring Euratom to offset threat of oil losses in Suez Canal dispute

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Louisville Schools Integrating Today In South's Big Test; LOUISVILLE MIXES ITS PUPILS TODAY Boundary Lines Changed

By Benjamin Fine Special To the New York Times

B Fine repts major desegregation test set as Lousiville, Ky, faces complete integration from kindergarten through hs ordered by Educ Bd; city is largest to take step in South; 12,500 of 50,000 ps pupils are Negroes; 54 of 73 pss will have mixed classes involving 40,000 pupils; other schools are in single-race dists; Negro teachers still employed but assigned to all-Negro schools; move result of careful 2-yr planning under Supt O Carmichael; Carmichael int; holds South should not have opposed Sup Ct edict but worked from the start to comply; says he plans to start faculty integration in '57; no trouble expected; similar move planned for rest of Jefferson County

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PRESIDENT OPENS A COLLEGE CHAPEL; All-Faith Unit at Penn State Named in Memory of Mrs. Milton S. Eisenhower PRESIDENT OPENS COLLEGE CHAPEL Communion and Sermon Meet at the Airport

By William G. Weart Special To the New York Times

Prot unit of all-faith chapel project hon late wife of Dr Eisenhower dedicated; Pres Eisenhower takes part; illus

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Notable Births

1956Johnnie Fingers, Irish keyboard player and songwriter^[†]

John Peter Moylett, known professionally as Johnnie Fingers, is an Irish keyboardist and co-founding member of the new wave band the Boomtown Rats. He was notable for his attire of striped pyjamas on stage and his melodic piano style. Though uncredited as such for decades, Fingers was the co-author of Boomtown Rats' 1979 hit "I Don't Like Mondays"; in 2019 Fingers received a financial settlement and credit for having co-written the song.

Historical Context for September 10, 1956

In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people^[†]