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HELSINKI, Finland, June 8-- Nikita S. Khrushchev warned Finland and her Scandinavian neighbors today against the dangers of joining international power blocs.
series on Cuba
King Saud in Jordan; greeted by King Hussein, Premier Hashem, others
Int on career
impasse seen likely
1957Randy Read, English crystallographer and academic[†]
Randy John Read is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and professor of protein crystallography at the University of Cambridge.
1957First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.[†]
Broad Peak is one of the eight-thousanders, and is located in the Karakoram range spanning Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan and Xinjiang, China. It is the 12th highest mountain in the world with 8,051 metres (26,414 ft) elevation above sea level. The first ascent of this mountain was in June 1957, accomplished by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl as part of an Austrian expedition.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]