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CAIRO, March 25--Dag Hammarskjold had his third and perhaps final talk late today with President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
18 dead; over 400 passengers removed from trains, Kan; damage to Kan power, phone lines heavy; other conditions; storm moves toward Gt Lakes; illus; map
plan to present musicals in Central Pk approved
Dies, 80
Sup Ct denies hearing to Negroes seeking admission to white school, Old Fort, NC; rules they must exhaust adm remedies under Pupil Enrollment Act before appealing to Fed cts
1957Fiona Bruce, Scottish lawyer and politician[†]
Fiona Claire Bruce is a British former Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Congleton from 2010 to 2024.
1957Leeza Gibbons, American talk show host and television personality[†]
Leeza Kim Gibbons is an American talk show host. She is best known as a correspondent and co-host for Entertainment Tonight (1984–2000) as well as for having her own syndicated daytime talk show, Leeza (1993–2000). In 2013, her book Take 2 became a New York Times bestseller and she won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Host in a Lifestyle or Travel program for the PBS show, My Generation. On February 16, 2015, Gibbons was named the winner of Celebrity Apprentice; while on the show she raised $714,000 for her charity Leeza's Care Connection.
1957Paul Morley, English journalist, producer, and author[†]
Paul Robert Morley is a British music journalist. He wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, and has since written for a wide range of publications and written his own books. He was a co-founder of the record label ZTT Records and was a member of the synthpop group Art of Noise. He has also been a band manager, promoter, and television presenter.
1957Shirin Neshat, Iranian visual artist[†]
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian photographer and visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects.
1957Édouard Herriot, French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1872)[†]
Édouard Marie Herriot was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He led the first Cartel des Gauches. Under the Fourth Republic, he served as President of the National Assembly until 1954. A historian by occupation, Herriot was elected to the Académie Française's eighth seat in 1946. He served as Mayor of Lyon for more than 45 years, from 1905 until his death, except for a brief period from 1940 to 1945, when he was exiled to Germany for opposing the Vichy regime.
1957Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter (born 1902)[†]
Maximillian Oppenheimer, known as Max Ophüls or simply Ophuls, was a German and French film director and screenwriter. He was known for his opulent and lyrical visual style, with heavy use of tracking shots, and his melancholic, romantic themes. The Harvard Film Archive referred to Ophüls as "a supreme stylist of the cinema and a master storyteller."
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]