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The nine-day-old strike by 60,000 East and Gulf Coast longshoremen was halted yesterday.
Informs Sec Gen Hammarskjold of steps taken toward withdrawal of Israeli troops from Egypt
Yugoslavia protests Nagy abduction in notes to USSR and Hungary; voices surprise that USSR would frustrate safe-conduct agreement; Kadar regime seen forfeiting Yugoslav support; Hungarians see abduction aimed partly at selves, partly at Tito
cold wave from NW panhandle to Everglades
Sen Ives, who with Sen Case joins drive, urges even rights foes to support move; Sen Mansfield sees enactment of 'fairly good rights bill' not improbable; discounts repts that rights issue would produce intra-party fight
1956Alexander Dovzhenko, Ukrainian-Russian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1894)[†]
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]