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1st application of proposed bill for selective slum clearance likely to be 20-sq-block area, W 87th-W 97th Sts, now being surveyed for Planning Comm by Brown & Guenther; map; Mayor Wagner comments
Series on unrest in Cuba, including exclusive int with rebel leader F Castro
talks set; further speculation; liner United States docks unaided
Dulles confs with Johnson, Knowland, other Sen leaders; with Eban; illus; Sen Magnuson opposes sanctions, TV program; Ben Gurion sends Eisenhower another message; Eban en route to US; Ben Gurion, Eban illus
Dulles and Eban indicate progress
1957Raymond McCreesh, Irish Republican, hunger striker (died 1981)[†]
Raymond McCreesh was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while attempting to ambush a British Army observation post. McCreesh was one of the ten Irish republicans who died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze Prison. McCreesh was one of 22 Irish republicans who died on hunger-strike.
1957Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singaporean economist and politician; 5th Senior Minister and 9th President of Singapore[†]
Tharman Shanmugaratnam is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been the current and ninth President of Singapore since 2023.
1957Mark Aldanov, Russian author and critic (born 1888)[†]
Mark Aldanov was a Russian and later French writer and critic, known for his historical novels.
1957Bugs Moran, American mob boss (born 1893)[†]
George Clarence "Bugs" Moran was an American Chicago Prohibition-era gangster. He was incarcerated three times before his 21st birthday. Seven members of his gang were gunned down and killed in a warehouse in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of February 14, 1929, supposedly on the orders of his rival Al Capone.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]