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Army 7--Wavy 7; 102,000 attend
MORE and more, said the departmental trendspotter the other day, we seem to be seeing the phrase "produced and designed by." It's true.
This was where the story of Hungary stood last week: Inside Hungary the Communist regime of Premier Janos Kadar took a tougher line. But a strange "shadow government" seemed to be ...
MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 1--American track and field athletes shared in a world record-breaking festival today and won three more gold medals for an even greater total than they harvested at Helsinki in 1952.
1956Steven Bauer, Cuban-American actor and producer[†]
Steven Bauer is a Cuban American actor.
1956The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.[†]
Granma is a yacht that was used to transport 82 fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in November 1956 to overthrow the regime of Fulgencio Batista. The 60-foot diesel-powered vessel was built in 1943 by Wheeler Shipbuilding of Brooklyn, New York, as a light armored target practice boat, US Navy C-1994, and modified postwar to accommodate 12 people. "Granma", in English, is an affectionate term for a grandmother; the yacht is said to have been named for the previous owner's grandmother.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]