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to visit Austria as Eisenhower 'personal repr' to study Hungarian refugee problems; will rept to Pres and Cong
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 12--Gen. Paul E. Magloire, who has been provisional chief of state since last Thursday, resigned today.
Dulles tells NATO US will not subject policy or actions to prior talks with allies
advisory com seen destroyed; seen told by Cong leaders that it may make proposals but will be treated as outside agency; Battle refuses to serve on com; only 6 of 20 asked to join group accept; Johnson and Rayburn assocs reptd to see 'total defeat' for liberal elements who tried to challenge Cong leadership
Mulrain concedes that 11 draw pay devoting full time to union activities, news conf; denies 61 are in category; says annual salaries are $4,850 each, that $53,000 total is sound investment in employe morale by adjustment of grievances; says DeLury has done no sanitation work in 10 yrs; says 50 others mentioned in suit are union shop stewards who perform sanitation duties; says practice of carrying employe union agents goes back 30 yrs; Wurf says his orgn is prepared to prove allegations in suit; says complaint will be amended to charge that Dept subsidizes a business agent of Teamsters local 237 and business agents of other unions
1956Phil Hubbard, American basketball player and coach[†]
Philip Gregory Hubbard is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He won a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics and after graduating from the University of Michigan, played for the Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1979 to 1989. Hubbard later served as an assistant coach for the Washington Wizards from 2003 to 2009 and as the head coach of the Los Angeles D-Fenders in 2014–15.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]