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US Sup Ct, 6-2, rules mil cts cannot try civilians accompanying armed forces overseas, reversing '56 ruling, Mrs D K Smith and Mrs E E Covert murder cases; orders both freed; Justices Frankfurter and Harlan, concurring, stress their opposition to mil trials in capital cases only; decision leaves unsettled cts-martial authority to try civilians for less than capital crimes
Eisenhower confined to bed with 'mild stomach upset'; Drs Snyder, Heaton, Mattingly rept good recovery, do not link illness to previous ones; believe cause was something Pres failed to digest; Sec Dulles says he heard it was blueberry pie; Nixon comments; Maj Eisenhower and S Adams, both on vacation, not called; illness falls on day when Heaton gets medal for performing '56 ileitis operation on Pres; Brit press reaction; illus of Pres at previous night's ceremony
Dulles warns Cong not to weaken West by relying on 'unsupervised' USSR promises, statement to House com defending Adm foreign aid request
Bills offered, Legis special session
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]