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snow reptd up to 48 in, W NY, Penna, Ohio; NYC 'snow alert' lifted; Buffalo area conditions described; illus
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23--A last-minute Federal mediation attempt to settle the East and Gulf Coast dock strike short of an injunction failed today. New York employers canceled a scheduled meeting here and no further meetings were set up.
Pravda urges Tito stop criticizing French Communists; text
US officials reptd split over US vote on Asian-African resolution; issue seen deepening split with allies over Middle East policy; Eisenhower reptdly holds that crisis can best be solved by speedy troops withdrawal; Eurs reptd opposed; fear Egypt will be more recalcitrant if mil pressure is removed; other data
Russian abduction of Hungarian ex-Premier Nagy despite immunity agreement between Kadar regime and Yugoslavia seen affront to Tito; Belgrade-Moscow ties seen worsened; Yugoslav Under Sec Vidic summons Hungarian charge d'affaires; demands to know why Nagy and party did not reach homes safely; Belgrade Borba and Politika score abduction
1956Terry Lewis, American musician, producer, and songwriter[†]
James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III and Terry Steven Lewis are an American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team. Their productions have received commercial success since the 1980s with various artists, most extensively Janet Jackson. They have written 31 top ten hits in the UK and 41 in the US. In 2022, the duo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Excellence category.
1956Ruben Santiago-Hudson, American actor, playwright, and director[†]
Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an American actor, playwright, and director who has won national awards for his work in all three categories. He is best known for his role of Captain Roy Montgomery from 2009 to 2011 on ABC's Castle. In November 2011, he appeared on Broadway in Lydia R. Diamond's play Stick Fly. In 2013, he starred in the TV series Low Winter Sun, a police drama set in Detroit. In 2021, he was nominated for best adaptation by the Screen Writers Guild for the film version of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
1956Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (born 1920)[†]
Guido Cantelli was an Italian orchestral conductor. Toscanini elected him his "spiritual heir" since the beginnings of his career. He was named Music Director of La Scala, Milan in November 1956, but his promising career was cut short only one week later by his death at the age of 36 in the 1956 Paris DC-6 crash in France en route to the United States.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]