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ALBANY, Jan. 9--A deep split in the Republican party has been brought into the open by the controversy that preceded today's election of Louis J. Lefkowitz as state Attorney General.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9--Washington heard the news of Prime Minister Eden's resignation with a mixture of regret and relief.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9--The White House reversed itself today and ruled that President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon would take their second term oaths on Sunday, Jan. 20, at a private, family ceremony in the White House.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 9-- Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labor party, called today for a general election. He indicated his belief that his party might win such a test.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9--The Eisenhower Administration took a firm stand today against a move to water down its proposals for meeting Communist penetration of the Middle East.
1957Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)[†]
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic. She was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order. She was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. Her image is featured on the 5,000 Chilean peso banknote.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]