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EL ARISH, Egypt, Jan. 15-- Yugoslav troops of the United Nations Emergency Force entered El Arish this morning and found that all the military installations except the airstrip had been blown up by the departing Israelis.
WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 15-- President Eisenhower ended his tour of parched Great Plains states today with a pledge to seek $76,000,000 in Federal funds for emergency drought relief.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15--The State Department announced today that the United States "welcomes" the proposed European common market and free trade zone.
Snow began blanketing the metropolitan area early last night after a day in which the temperature had fallen to a record of 3.1 degrees in the city. Below-zero readings were reported in the suburbs. The Weather Bureau said the snow might reach a depth of three to five inches before it stopped today. A heavier fall was expected in northern New Jersey and eastern Long Island.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15--John Foster Dulles asserted today that the alternative to President Eisenhower's Middle Eastern program would be "a very great likelihood" that United States troops would have to fight there.
1957Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer and manager[†]
Jurijs Andrejevs is a Latvian former football player and manager who is the sporting director of Riga FC academy. Previously he was the manager of the team but was released in 2008 after an unsuccessful season. He was the manager of Latvia national team from 2004 to 2007, having succeeded Aleksandrs Starkovs in December 2004.
1957Ricardo Darín, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter[†]
Ricardo Alberto Darín is an Argentine actor, film director and film producer, considered one of the best and most prolific actors of Argentine cinema.
1957Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English general and politician, 16th Governor General of Canada (born 1874)[†]
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, was a member of the extended British royal family, as a great-grandson of King George III, a brother of Queen Mary, uncle to the Kings Edward VIII and George VI, and the husband of Princess Alice of Albany. He was a British Army commander, who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and Governor General of Canada.
1957Arturo Toscanini, Italian cellist and conductor (born 1867)[†]
Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic. Later in his career, he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–1954), and this led to his becoming a household name, especially in the United States, through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]