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delayed over Norfolk talks; unsigned handbills urging pact rejection flood NY area; Bradley suspects H Bridges or his repr I C Velson
Brit Conservatives and Laborites criticize US policy, Commons; Macmillan confs with Sec Lloyd; French puzzled by Eisenhower s; Assembly debate uncertain; postponed 5 times; Lodge wants US to back, sanctions; Pearson (Canada) confs with other delegates on compromise
CAIRO, Feb. 21--The Government appeared today to have been pleased by President Eisenhower's firmness in urging Israeli forces to give up areas they had seized in their attack on Egypt.
pres O'Malley repts Ft Worth franchise traded to P K Wrigley for Los Angeles franchise; denies plan for immediate shift to Calif; discusses NYC proposals for new stadium
Justice Dineen dismisses as premature H L Present suit for 3 others to bar development on grounds const guarantee of separation of ch and state would be violated by proposed bldg of Fordham U campus and rebldg of St Matthew's RC Ch; Present plans appeal; HHFA regional admr Fried asks more data of Moses before approving project; cites rise in planned Fed aid from $10 million to $33.5 million
1957Willie Smits, Dutch microbiologist and engineer[†]
Willie Smits is a trained forester, microbiologist, conservationist, animal welfare activist, wilderness engineer and social entrepreneur. He has lived in Indonesia since 1985 and is an Indonesian citizen. He is married to Adrienne C. Watson since March 2016.
1957Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.[†]
Ngô Đình Diệm was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 coup d'état.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]