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Chwastov and daughter taken off USSR SS Vyacheslav Molotov on writ issued at Ch World Service request on behalf of child's mother; US Embassy comments
Tallamy, (Chmn) B D, Fed Hwy Admr
Pres Eisenhower authorizes ODM to survey tanker needs to bypass Canal if necessary and to build any tankers needed; Dir Flemming comment
Benson cited by Pres Eisenhower as 'poor man', reply to query during 'Citizens Press Conf' on rich men in Cabinet
Brit officials reptdly weigh partitioning island into Greek and Turkish ethnic zones as last resort to settle problems; plan reptd discussed with US officials, not yet with Greek and Turkish reprs; map; 529 Cypriotes in prison or detention camps; 49 Brit soldiers, 24 policemen, 94 civilians slain up to Sept 30, 463 injured; air traffic except for certain corridors banned
1956Chris Carter, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Christopher Carl Carter is an American television and film producer, director and writer. Born in Bellflower, California, Carter graduated with a degree in journalism from California State University, Long Beach before spending thirteen years working for Surfing Magazine. After beginning his television career working on television films for Walt Disney Studios, Carter rose to fame in the 1990s for creating the Fox science fiction supernatural drama series The X-Files. The show earned high viewership ratings, and eventually led to Carter's being able to negotiate the creation of future series.
1956Sinan Sakić, Serbian singer (died 2018)[†]
Sinan Sakić was a Serbian pop-folk singer.
1956Joseph Toal, Scottish bishop[†]
Joseph Anthony Toal is a Scottish Roman Catholic bishop. On 29 April 2014 he was named by Pope Francis as the fifth Bishop of Motherwell, having served as Bishop of Argyll and the Isles since 2008.
1956Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author (born 1910)[†]
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı was a Turkish poet and author from Türkiye. Identified with the poem "Otuz Beş Yaş", Tarancı[1] adhered to the understanding of "art for art's sake". He mostly included the themes of joy of life and death in his poems; He also wrote poems about lost loves, happy loves, loneliness, the bitterness of the bohemian life he lived, and childhood longing. Many of his poems were composed by different composers. In addition to his poetry books Ömrümde Sükût (1933), Otuz Beş Yaş (1946), Düşten Güzel (1952) and after his death "Sonrası"(1957) and Bütün Şiirleri (1983), he wrote various stories, and these stories were published on the 50th anniversary of Tarancı's death. It was published under the title " Gün Eksilmesin Penceremden" (2006). Most of the letters the poet wrote to his family members, friends and close friends, who also translated poems from French literature, were published under the names of Ziya'ya Mektuplar (1957) and Evime ve Nihal'e Mektuplar (1989).
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]