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LONDON, Jan. 3--Britain has decided to strengthen her strategic air routes to Australia, New Zealand and the Far East by reestablishing a military airfield in the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean.
WASHINGTON, Jan.3--The Eighty-fifth Congress assembled today under unchallenged Democratic control. It prepared at once to meet a historic foreign policy issue.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 3--The United States is "looking forward to further private discussions under the aegis of the United Nations" for a settlement of the Suez Canal issue, a spokesman said today.
ALBANY, Jan. 3--Governor Harriman will hold out hope for state tax reductions in his annual message to the Legislature Wednesday.
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 3--A Federal distirct, judge ruled today that Florida and Miami bus segregation laws were unconstitutional.
1957Patty Loveless, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Patty Loveless is an American country music singer. She began performing in her teenaged years before signing her first recording contract with MCA Records' Nashville division in 1985. While her first few releases were unsuccessful, she broke through by decade's end with a cover of George Jones's "If My Heart Had Windows". Loveless issued five albums on MCA before moving to Epic Records in 1993, where she released nine more albums. Four of her albums—Honky Tonk Angel, Only What I Feel, When Fallen Angels Fly, and The Trouble with the Truth—are certified platinum in the United States. Loveless has charted 44 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including five which reached number one: "Timber, I'm Falling in Love", "Chains", "Blame It on Your Heart", "You Can Feel Bad", and "Lonely Too Long".
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]