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May 18, 1957

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Headlines from May 18, 1957

BECK AIDE PLEADS THE 5TH 71 TIMES; Relative Balks at Questions on $100,000--Teamster Head Faces Ballot Fight McClellan Sees 'Record' BECK AIDE PLEADS THE 5TH 71 TIMES McClellan Backs Move Beck Ouster Sought Beck Called a 'Fool' Speedier Exit Sought

By Joseph A. Loftus Special To the New York Times

Gessert refuses to answer questions on $100,000 he recd from union and from co doing business with Teamsters; pleads 5th Amendment 71 times in 21 mins; McClellan comments; Teamsters 4th vp O'Brien says he will oppose Beck for Teamsters pres; English approves; hearings adjourn

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Dazed Boy Wakens In an Oxygen Tent, Asks for 'Mommy'; Coat and Oxygen Credited DAZED BOY WAKES CALLING 'MOMMY'

By Special to The New York Times

MASTIC BEACH, L.I., May 17-Little Benjamin Hooper awoke as from a twenty-fourhour sleep and asked for "Mommy."

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STONE TESTIFIES HONEST JUDGMENT ABSOLVED LANZA; Tells Watchdog Committee 'No Venality or Corruption' Was Involved in Case DENIES OTHER VERSIONS Harriman Also Contradicted by Ex-Parole Commissioner on Details of Quitting

By Leo Egan

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Negroes Hold Rally On Rights in Capital; RIGHTS BACKERS MASS IN CAPITAL Throng Called Orderly

By Jay Walz Special To the New York Times

Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, DC, to mark anniv

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Boy in Well Rescued After 24 Hours; Teams Dig a 2d Shaft and Battle Shifting Sand to Reach L. I. Lad----Rushed to a Hospital, He Is Recovering L .I. Boy Taken From Well Alive After Rescuers Dig for 24 Hours Oxygen Piped In Tunnel Dug in Sand Father Dug Well

By McCandlish Phillips Special To the New York Times.the New York Timesthe New York Times (BY MEYER LIEBOWITZ)

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Notable Births

1957Michael Cretu, Romanian-German keyboard player and producer^[†]

Michael Cretu is a Romanian-German musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He gained worldwide fame as the founder and musician behind the musical project Enigma, which he formed in 1990.

1957Henrietta Moore, English anthropologist and academic^[†]

Dame Henrietta Louise Moore, is a British social anthropologist. She is the director of the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity at University College, London, part of the Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment.

Historical Context for May 18, 1957

In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people^[†]