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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov. 14--Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, left this afternoon to try to work out with Egyptian authorities arrangements for the United Nations emergency police force.
NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 14 --Four Asian Prime Ministers denounced tonight the attacks against Egypt and Hungary. But for the most part the Asian leaders used considerably harsher language against Britain and France than against the Soviet Union.
Hammarskjold asks Hungary to reconsider refusal to admit UN observers, Nov 13 message; recd no reply to offer to arrange distribution of relief supplies; would go to Budapest on way back from Cairo; USSR maintains stand on Nov 4 resolution, holds admission of UN observers is 'exclusively within jurisdiction' of Hungarian Govt, note to Hammarskjold; UN delegates concerned at deportation repts; Latin Amer bloc confs on credentials of Hungarian delegation
conf is 1st since Oct 11
Eisenhower vows fight to check inflation, news conf; notes 2 types of inflations and their significance; economists agree on need to check inflation, but see difficult fight
1956Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer[†]
Michael Hampton is an American funk/rock guitarist. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
1956Emma Richter, German paleontologist (born 1888)[†]
Emma Richter was a German paleontologist. She is best known for her work concerning Trilobites. She was an honorary member of the Paleontological Society of America and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]