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Saud continues visit to Iraq; he and Feisal get urgent plea from King Hussein for $21-million loan to replace sum promised but not paid by Egypt and Syria; Jordanian sources confirm repts that Hussein refused inv to Baghdad to avoid arousing Egyptian hostility; Saud-Feisal talks discussed
device described as 'weapon' exploded at high altitude in Christmas Is area, making GB world's 3d H-bomb power; map; Japan Anti-Bomb Test Council believes Japanese fishing boats were in area; Japanese Foreign Min regrets test; says GB will be held responsible for damages
WASHINGTON, May 15-- President Eisenhower threw his prestige as a military man into the battle of the budget today in seeking to ward off a possible cut of $2,500,000,000 in projected defense outlays.
opens NYC crusade; illus
1957Joan Benoit, American runner[†]
Joan Benoit Samuelson is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She held the fastest time for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years after winning the race in 1985. Her time at the Boston Marathon was the fastest time by an American woman in that race for 28 years. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2000.
1957Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, English politician[†]
Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, is a British peer, businessman and Conservative Party politician.
1957Yuri Shevchuk, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Yuri Yulianovich Shevchuk is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and singer/songwriter who leads the rock band DDT, which he founded with Vladimir Sigachyov in 1980.
1957Anthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso, English lawyer and businessman[†]
Anthony Tudor St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso is a British peer, politician, businessman and solicitor. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999. He speaks on African affairs, deregulation, financial services and information technology. Rather than aligning with a particular political party, he remains a crossbencher.
1957Bob Suter, American ice hockey player and coach (died 2014)[†]
Robert Allen Suter was an American professional ice hockey defenseman and member of the Miracle on Ice 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team who won the gold medal.
1957Eliot Ness, American federal agent (born 1903)[†]
Eliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago. He was leader of a team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables, handpicked for their incorruptibility. The release of his memoir The Untouchables, months after his death, launched several screen portrayals establishing a posthumous fame for Ness as an incorruptible crime fighter.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]