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Fed grand jury, Tacoma, Wash, indicts him for evading payment of $56,000 in income tax and helping Teamster Joint Council No. 24 prepare false tax return, '50
com votes for contempt action against H Lanza; sr parole officer I Greenspan testifies Lanzas seemed to have direct 'pipeline' to Parole Div; corroborates other parole officers testimony on 'unusual' procedures in case; DeSapio denies close friendship with Lanza; testimony by Mrs Lanza during com's private hearings read into record; com seeks identity of persons she refused to identify; Reuter repts he knows some named in tapes and names of persons who reptdly tampered with tapes
Leon Valencia under house arrest after threatening armed resistance to Govt custody, Call; univ students in protest strikes; other Rojas opponents active
Benson charges output controls fail, lr to Son Ellender; urges Cong act
Wagner announces 10 projects will be pressed, 5 will be dropped or deferred, and 1 new project, on site of Jamaica Racetrack, Queens, will be added under Cole-Moses accord; Moses rept included in announcement; Wagner lr to Cole terms accord 'reasonably satisfactory,' voices disappointment at loss of part of program
1957Rod Langway, Taiwanese-American ice hockey player and coach[†]
Rodney Cory Langway is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL) and Birmingham Bulls of the World Hockey Association (WHA). He won the 1979 Stanley Cup with the Canadiens.
1957Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.[†]
Walter Francis O'Malley was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles despite the Dodgers being the second most profitable team in baseball from 1946 to 1956, and coordinating the move of the New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of Kansas City, Missouri. In 2008, O'Malley was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for his contributions to and influence on the game of baseball.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]