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Hammarskjold rejects Israeli request for guarantees before withdrawal, rept to Assembly; says UNEF will establish itself in Gulf area 'same way as in other parts of Sinai'; calls for prompt compliance with UN resolutions and '49 truce; map
Repub leaders, Moses, Niagara Mohawk execs draft bill authorizing NYS Power Authority (Auth) to develop Niagara power; drop preference clause; allot 445,000 kw hrs to Niagara Mohawk to compensate for '56 Schoellkopf plant disaster; Sen Chavez says his com will study plan as nail, not pol issue
BLS Consumer Price Index up 0.2% to 118, Dec, in 6th rise in 7 mos; chart; table on annual changes
Kashmir formally accedes to India; Constituent Assembly dissolves; will be replaced by Legis; now Const, including clause barring bill to change Kashmir's status as part of India, takes effect; Nehru scores UN resolution; Turkish Premier Menderes backs Pakistan on issue; map
1957Road Warrior Hawk, American wrestler (died 2003)[†]
Michael James Hegstrand was an American professional wrestler. He was best known as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as the Road Warriors, with Road Warrior Animal. Outside of the Road Warriors, Hawk was a sporadic challenger for world heavyweight championships on pay-per-view from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He headlined the inaugural 1993 edition of Extreme Championship Wrestling's premier annual event, November to Remember.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]