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7 Eurs killed, Nedroma, by rebel bomb; 7 French security troops killed in ambush near Oran; action follows French seizure or slaying of 80 rebels in Oran
Army Times repts Guardsmen with 2 yrs Guard training but no prior active duty outscored Regular Army units in basic training tests conducted by Continental Army Command in '56; Army repr says no official conclusions have been reached on tests but believes rept will be released during House Armed Services (Brooks) subcom hearings on 6-mo program; Gen Taylor says Guard is not well trained, TV int
Wagner has grippe
Ethical Practices Com finds Allied Indus Workers, 2 others guilty of welfare fund abuses; scores Allied Indus Workers failure to oust J Dioguardi, or failure to act when Sen probe disclosed abuses by Chicago local pres Inciso; AFL-CIO exec council to weigh punitive action
1957Matthew Cobb, British zoologist and author[†]
Matthew Cobb is a British zoologist and professor of zoology at the University of Manchester. He is known for his popular science books The Egg & Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth; Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; and The Idea of the Brain: A History. Cobb has appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage, The Life Scientific, and The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry, as well as on BBC Radio 3 and the BBC World Service.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]