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Eisenhower and Stevenson pledge to strengthen bulwarks against infringement of rights, statements to NCCJ and ACLU
NYC and NYS Up-state cities regis decline avg is 7% from '52
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 13-- A searing sun and the worst drought in fifty years have burned up a lot of Eisenhower votes as well as crops in Oklahoma.
GB asks US to join in getting users assn into operation at once, Lloyd conf with Dulles; move seen designed to enable members to pay tolls to assn instead of Egypt; Brit officials say Egypt will get nothing from assn until it agrees to 'cooperate'; warns force will be used if Egypt stops Brit ships at canal; 15 assn members to meet in London to hear exec group rept; delay in finding Scandinavian or Dutch shipping exec for post of admr noted; GB may recommend apptmt of a Briton; Brit, French and Egyptian foreign mins reptdly will meet in Eur in 2-3 wks and Hammarskjold will continue to act as 'letterbox'; Lloyd confs with Pineau; says 'we have done our best'; Dulles, Spaak leave NYC; Fawzi remains
wife illus with family, White House
1956FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.[†]
Fortran is a third-generation, compiled, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]