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Mollet wins confidence vote, 221-188, with 111 abstentions; position weakened
Assembly kills bill; Harrington, Bannigan only proponents; Wilson bitterly attacks bill
com staff gets scores of valuable tips on racketeering, including more leads pointing to Beck; Beck leaves Washington; will not attend AFL-CIO exec council conf; com to recess about 2 wks; investigators probe Teamsters rackets in Okla City, Seattle
Tass, citing 'leading circles in USSR' as source, warns France and Israel that new attack on Egypt will create threat of broad mil conflict
Freed from exile after issuing statement asking end to violence on Cyprus
1957Elizabeth Hand, American author[†]
Elizabeth Hand is an American writer.
1957Mark Hudson, British writer, journalist and art critic[†]
Mark Hudson is a British writer, journalist and art critic. Since 2021 he has been chief art critic of The Independent. He has won multiple awards.
1957Christopher Lambert, American-French actor[†]
Christophe Guy Denis Lambert, commonly known as Christopher Lambert, is a French-American actor, producer, and writer. He started his career playing supporting parts in several French films, and became internationally famous for portraying Tarzan in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). For his performance in the film Subway (1985), he received the César Award for Best Actor. He is best known for his role of Connor MacLeod in the adventure-fantasy film Highlander (1986) and the subsequent television and film franchise of the same name, Raiden in Mortal Kombat (1995), Methodius in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011), and Arne Seslum in Hail, Caesar! (2016). He also served as executive producer for Nine Months (1995).
1957Kathryn Tanner, American theologian[†]
Kathryn Eileen Tanner is an American Anglican theologian who serves as Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School.
1957Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish novelist (born 1888)[†]
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary, known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official. His most notable novels include Mister Johnson and The Horse's Mouth.
1957The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.[†]
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. The last train ran from Norwich, New York, to Middletown, New York, in 1957, after which it was ordered liquidated by a U.S. bankruptcy judge. It was the first Class I U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]