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Moscow Pravda summarizes People's Daily ed which says strong 'bourgeois' elements try to exploit new freedom of discussion to destroy regime and that workers must counter-attack; does not indicate USSR attitude on debate in China
Gen Lung Yun cites US example of writing off World Wars I and II loans in scoring USSR insistence that China pay interest on USSR loans
M F Doyle role in saving him from execution '16 recalled
Truman article on inability issue suggests, in event of disability, that 3 Govt branches select med bd to examine Pres and send findings to Cong; Cong, if rept is affirmative, would declare VP Pres, Pres would not regain office, and Electoral Coll would be convened to elect new VP
Comr Moses sees end of big bridge bldg, NYC; sees new tubes added to existing tunnels, but no new tunnels; links high costs of land, large number of people that must be moved
1957Mark Parkinson, American lawyer and politician, 45th Governor of Kansas[†]
Mark Vincent Parkinson is an American businessman and former politician serving as head of the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL). He served as the 47th lieutenant governor of Kansas from 2007 to 2009 and the 45th governor of Kansas from 2009 until 2011. He was also a state legislator.
1957In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.[†]
Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957), along with its companion case Alberts v. California, was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which redefined the constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment. The Court, in an opinion by Justice William J. Brennan Jr. created a test to determine what constituted obscene material: Whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the material appeals to a prurient interest in sex, and whether the material was utterly without redeeming social value. Although the Court upheld Roth’s conviction and allowed some obscenity prosecutions, it drastically loosened obscenity laws. The decision dissatisfied both social conservatives who thought that it had gone too far in tolerating sexual imagery, and liberals who felt that it infringed on the rights of consenting adults.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]