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Sen com refuses to restore House cut in PO budget; rejects subcom proposal to restore $32 million; House com defers vote on 2d-class rate rise
Harriman, expanding earlier order, bans recreation in pub and private woodlands, open areas and waters; alerts all CD workers; NYC pks and Jones Beach exempted; outbreaks noted, NY and NJ; Plymouth Forest, Mass, nearly destroyed; town still threatened; Plymouth-Carver resort area hit; Abp Cushing asks all archdiocese priests to pray for rain; NH Gov Dwinell orders state pks closed; 4,000 acres, several homes destroyed, N Kennebunk, Me
Tex Atomic Energy Research Foundation and Gen Atomic sign pact for 4-yr, $10-million program at San Diego, Calif; E H Dixon hails action; W A Parish comments
Bauman offers rept to com showing Lanza continued racketeering at Fulton Fish Mkt while on parole; Marsicano perjury subornation charge denied by Martoccia, partially corroborated by V Fannelli; Dwyer testifies Stone asked him about case while probe was pending; Westchester warden describes how Lanza talks were taped
communique on talks with Adenauer
1957Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (died 1979)[†]
Simon John Ritchie, better known by his stage name Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the second bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. After his death in 1979 at the age of 21, he remained an icon of the punk subculture; one of his friends noted that he embodied "everything in punk that was dark, decadent and nihilistic."
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]