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plan for new engineering and tech com, increased role for Central Statistical Bd noted
vast shake-up of Soviet bureaucracy seen indicated
bandit leader agrees to release her if he is allowed to go free; Govt agrees; map of search area
Legis approves bill to use Gowanus Expressway route, saving 2,500 Bay Ridge homes; Mayor Wagner opposed
WASHINGTON, March 30-- The "enthusiastic cooperation" of a Senate committee was promised today for labor's own investigation of Dave Beck and his International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
1957Alan Duncan, English businessman and politician, former Shadow Leader of the House of Commons[†]
Sir Alan James Carter Duncan is a British former politician who served as Minister of State for International Development from 2010 to 2014 and Minister of State for Europe and the Americas from 2016 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutland and Melton from 1992 to 2019.
1957Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.[†]
Territorial Assembly elections were held in French Upper Volta on 31 March 1957. The result was a victory for the Unified Democratic Party, which won 33 of the 68 seats in the Assembly.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]