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Lodge pledges US will 'thoughtfully consider' USSR plan, UN Disarmament Comm; Sobolev urges Comm rept to Assembly and Sec Gen on progress; Amb Walker (Australia) deplores progress lack
Sen Humphrey suggests US offer to withdraw troops from W Ger if USSR agrees to withdraw from E Ger and permit unified Ger to join NATO
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Issues joint communique with Prime Min Nehru on talks
Navy Dept announces location of 9 official Project Vanguard tracking stations in N and S Amer; stations will make optical observations and record radio signals, relay information to Washington where satellites' path will be charted; details; map
1956Dave Laut, American shot putter (died 2009)[†]
David Lester Laut was an American shot putter. He was born in Findlay, Ohio, and grew up in Oxnard, California. Laut attended Art Haycox Elementary School, E. O. Green Junior High School, Santa Clara High School, Moorpark College, along with San Jose City College and UCLA, where he was a two-time NCAA champion and ranked No. 1 shot putter in the United States.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]