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Wins Pulitzer Prize for musical composition Meditations on Ecclesiastes
Costello subpoenaed by NY County grand jury; taxi driver queried; P Kennedy again queried
LONDON, May 6--Britain proposed today a series of steps that ultimately would free the world of nuclear-weapons tests.
US to station atomic-missile (Matador) unit on Taiwan, 1st in Far East; map
Bogota paralyzed by strikes; 5 dead in riots; Rojas claims full support of armed forces, radio-TV s; 1st and 2d class reserves called up; communications curbed; univ classes suspended though students are already on strike; 10 newspapers suspend, apparently to show disapproval of Rojas
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]