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Dems fail to tack plan on to Repub corn legis
safe in abortive attack on Pres Palace
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Thursday, March 14--Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo and his much criticized Cabinet resigned today. President Sukarno immediately proclaimed a state of war and siege throughout Indonesia.
Eisenhower says quelling of tensions will be mainly Hammarskjold's duty, press conf; Eban confs with Herter; Dulles silent, int, Australia
conf ends; backs mil advisers rept, plan to expand program of combating Communist subversion and other measures; Home stress on menace of Chinese Communists noted; Dulles comments on conf
1957Tad Williams, American author[†]
Robert Paul "Tad" Williams is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. He is the author of the multivolume Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, Otherland series, Shadowmarch series, and The Bobby Dollar series, as well as the standalone novels Tailchaser's Song and The War of the Flowers. Most recently, Williams published The Last King of Osten Ard series, with its final novel The Navigator's Children being published in 2024. More than 17 million copies of Williams' works have been sold.
1957Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (born 1938)[†]
Evagoras Pallikarides was a Greek-Cypriot poet and revolutionist who was a member of EOKA during the 1955–1959 campaign against British rule in Cyprus. He was arrested on 18 December 1956 when he was caught carrying weaponry on a donkey, to which he confessed in his trial. He was sentenced to death by hanging for firearms possession on 27 February 1957 and was the youngest insurgent to be executed in Cyprus. His death generated widespread controversy due to his young age and the circumstances of his arrest.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]