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House approves $200 million deficiency funds for REA loans
Premier Gerhardsen rejects USSR protest against atomic weapons use, holds Norway's defense its own affair, lr to Bulganin; ignores H-bomb threat
Pravda reprints Peiping People's Daily ed admitting 'contradictions' in views and interests between party-Govt bureaucracy and masses; frank ed seen refuting pet theory of unanimity of interests in Communist states
WASHINGTON, April 15-- Washington officials were puzzled tonight by the composition of the new Jordanian Cabinet.
Gerosa repts $2.5-million saving in service charges; links favorable mkt conditions; he, Wagner, Beame stress saving must be applied to debt
1957Patricia De Martelaere, Belgian philosopher, author, and academic (died 2009)[†]
Patricia De Martelaere was a Flemish philosopher, professor, author and essayist. Born in Zottegem, Belgium, her full name was Patricia Marie Madeleine Godelieve. She graduated in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven and then taught and lectured there and at the Catholic University of Brussels.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]