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March 12, 1957

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Headlines from March 12, 1957

NASSAR MOVING TO TAKE OVER GAZA; NAMES GOVERNOR, SCORES U. N. UNIT; HAMMARSKJOLD DEFERRING ACTION; CAIRO MAKES BID Seeks to Reduce Role of Gen. Burns' Force to Border Patrol U.N. Named a Governor No Advance Warning NASSER IS MOVING TO RECOVER GAZA Nasser Holds Meeting Egypt Bars Canadians

By Homer Bigart Special To the New York Times

Egypt accuses UNEF of exceeding its authority; announces intent to take over immediately; Nasser appts Gen H A Latif Gov; move to limit UNEF to guarding truce border seen; Bunche denies UN seeks to internationalize Strip; denies Egyptian allegation UNEF troops fired on mob

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Fried Resigns Post With Prisons Board; FRIED QUITS POST ON STATE BOARD

By Special to The New York Times

Gov Harriman accepts resignation from NYS Correction Comm; comments; Albany sources deny move linked to fact that Fried's 2 bros have prison records

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New One-Way Plan Cuts Delay by 30% In Midtown Traffic; NEW PLAN SPEEDS MIDTOWN TRAFFIC Plan to Ease Bottleneck Bus Situation Confused

By Joseph C. Ingrahamthe New York Times

new pattern cuts delays 30% on 1st weekday test; causes 6-hr jam, Herald Sq; illus; Wiley holds crosstown delays cut 50%; says tech changes will ease bottlenecks

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U.N. Chief Suggests Move Aims to Placate Egyptians; Slur at U.N. Force Seen MOVE IS DEFERRED BY HAMMARSKJOLD

By Thomas J. Hamilton Special To the New York Times

Hammarskjold and Advisory Com conf

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Music Sleuth Finds Missing Haydn Mass; LOST HAYDN MASS FOUND IN AUSTRIA One Work Still Missing

By John MacCormac Special To the New York Times

Haydn, Franz Josef: complete set of mss parts for individual instruments and voices for 1 of missing masses found in Goettweig (Lower Austria) Monastery by Amer musicologist H C R Landon; history of mss

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Notable Births

1957Patrick Battiston, French footballer and coach^[†]

Patrick Raymond Jean Battiston is a French former footballer who played as a defender for the France national team in three World Cups and won UEFA Euro 1984. At club level, he played for Metz, Saint-Étienne, Bordeaux, and Monaco, winning five Ligue 1 titles and one Coupe de France.

1957Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer^[†]

Marlon David Jackson is an American singer and dancer best known as a member of the Jackson 5. He is the sixth child of the Jackson family. Marlon now runs Study Peace Foundation to promote peace and unity worldwide.

1957Andrey Lopatov, Soviet basketball player (died 2022)^[†]

Andrey Vyacheslavovich Lopatov was a Russian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union for many years and won a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Notable Deaths

1957Josephine Hull, American actress (born 1877)^[†]

Marie Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Harvey (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as Josephine Sherwood.

Historical Context for March 12, 1957

In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people^[†]