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The International Longshoremen's Association announced yesterday that it had accepted a ten-point housecleaning program set forth by the Maritime Trades Department of the merged labor movement.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-- President Eisenhower put pressure on Congress today to approve his program for the Middle East without important alteration.
MOSCOW, Jan. 23--The Soviet Union warned other countries today against permitting the United States to establish atomic military contingents on their territory. One warning included the threat of nuclear retaliation by the Soviet Union in the event of war.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-- President Eisenhower told Congress today that the Government could not halt inflation by itself without taking measures that would raise "serious obstacles" to continued prosperity.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23--Senate leaders agreed today to set up a special committee with broad authority to investigate labor racketeering and corruption in labor-management relations.
1957Mark Eaton, American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2021)[†]
Mark Edward Eaton was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire career (1982–1993) with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Named an NBA All-Star in 1989, he was twice voted the NBA Defensive Player of the Year and was a five-time member of the NBA All-Defensive Team. The 7-foot-4-inch (2.24 m) Eaton became one of the best defensive centers in NBA history. He led the league in blocks four times and holds the NBA single-season records for blocks (456) and blocked shots per game average (5.6), as well as career blocked shots per game (3.5). His No. 53 was retired by the Jazz.
1957Ade Edmondson, English comedian and musician[†]
Adrian Charles Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. Part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s, he and his comedy partner Rik Mayall starred in the television sitcoms The Young Ones (1982–1984), Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) and Bottom (1991–1995), the last of which was written by Edmonson and Mayall, as well as the comedy feature film Guest House Paradiso (1999), which Edmonson directed and co-wrote. Edmondson and Mayall also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents... series of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For two episodes of this they created the spoof heavy metal band Bad News, and for another Edmonson played his nihilistic alter-ego Eddie Monsoon, an offensive South African television star.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]