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Statement in reply to Stevenson suggestion on mil draft
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 6--Approximately 200,000 Hungarians marched today before the coffins of Laszlo Rajk and three other top-ranking Communists who were executed seven years ago by their Communist rivals.
Dr Sabin repts new live-virus vaccine that can be taken orally is ready for mass testing on humans; says virtues of vaccine are its highly attenuated virus, low cost and adm by mouth; plans tests on US Reformatory inmate volunteers, Chillicothe, Ohio; notes similar successful test of earlier live-virus strain; discusses development of attenuated virus; Dr Rivers repts Natl Foundation backed Sabin studies with $1 million over 10 yrs but has not yet authorized field trials with its funds because of lack of data; Foundation had financed earlier Chillicothe test
US reptdly seeks basis for talks despite endorsement of Brit-French resolution; Egypt and USSR reptdly will reject resolution; Fawzi confs with Hammarskjold; hopes closed Council meetings will help; crisis seen major test of UN's effectiveness
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1956Steve Bainbridge, English rugby player[†]
Stephen Bainbridge is a former England international rugby union player. In 1983 he toured with the British and Irish Lions on their tour to New Zealand and in the 1987 Rugby World Cup. He played amongst other teams for club rugby for Fylde, Gosforth, Blaydon and Orrell R.U.F.C.
1956Mike Shipley, Australian-English sound engineer and producer (died 2013)[†]
Michael Shipley was an Australian mixing engineer, audio engineer, and record producer. Shipley's music career spanned more than 30 years – mostly working in Los Angeles. At the Grammy Awards of 2012 he won the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical category for his joint work on Paper Airplane, by Alison Krauss and Union Station. Shipley died in July 2013, aged 56, of an apparent suicide.
1956Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Brian Louis Allen Sutter is a Canadian former ice hockey forward and former head coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). Brian is the second oldest of the famous Sutter brothers and the oldest of the six that played in the NHL. He is also the only one to have his number retired by an NHL team.
1956Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (born 1886)[†]
Clarence Birdseye was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. He founded the frozen food company Birds Eye. Among his inventions during his career was the double belt freezer.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]