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Reuther re-elected pres unanimously; illus; R Gosser, P Greathouse, N Matthews, L Woodcock elected vps, E Mazey sec-treas; delegates vote to elect local officers for 2 yrs instead of 1; other resolutions
Eisenhower laughs at suggestion that personal criticism may provoke anger and thereby injure health, news conf; denies aides 'protect' him from criticism
Parole Bd orders rev following Lefkowitz ruling it has right to reconsider violation charges; Harriman backs decision; Mailler gets case records from Reuter; both decline to discuss repts that 2 members of Legis interceded with Bd for Lanza; Reuter repts his probe nearly completed; hopes to rept to Harriman soon; com to continue hearings
Eisenhower notes Adm is studying problems and pressure to ease curbs, news conf
Khrushchev plan to defer state loan payments until at least '78 and to end floating new loans pub by Moscow press; plan freezes Govt debt of 260 billion rubles, bars interest payments; younger generation seen benefiting, older people with savings tied up in state loans hurt; freely redeemable 3% loan to be retained
1957United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.[†]
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]