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Nasser announces list of 1,142 hand-picked candidates for July Parliamentary election out of 2,469 that filed; others, including pro-Western candidates, eliminated in screening by Nasser and assocs
House subcom votes supplemental PO Dept funds of $133 million, $16.5 million less than asked, to ward off service cuts
Sup Ct, 8-0, rules then-Sec Acheson wrongfully discharged J S Service, '51; remands case to lower ct; holds Acheson violated Dept rules when he overruled finding in Service favor by then-Deputy Under Sec Humelsine; Service comments; rev
curbs placed on USSR bloc ability to 'filibuster' by demanding roll-calls; new rule requires 50, not 20, votes to obtain roll-call
France reimposes import quotas on goods from W Eur and dollar zone; Min Gaillard blames growing deficit; says France must face common mkt in healthier condition; opposition to move discussed
1957Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish footballer and manager[†]
Miguel Ángel Lotina Oruechebarría is a Spanish professional manager and former footballer who played as a striker.
1957Richard Powers, American novelist[†]
Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2024, Powers has published fourteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]