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Benson repts Agr Dept weighs tighter curbs on '58 acreage, would bar soil bank participants from increasing plantings in other soil-depleting crops, news conf; says Natl Agr Advisory Comm backs plan
Stassen says US proposals for staged manpower cuts are linked with Ger reunification satisfactory to W Ger, UN subcom; Zorin says world will not understand linking tests and materials output bans; Lloyd and French reprs offer staged cuts in their forces
Maj Gen Jung Kuk Rok proposes new conf, Mil Armistice Comm
R Feller favors some anti-trust controls and modified reserve clause; other proposals; S Musial opposes any change in clause; team payrolls and avg '56 salaries listed
Cheasty testifies on Hoffa bribe; says Hoffa told him he had 2 other lines of information from Sen com; says Hoffa wanted data so he 'could get these men ready to testify,'
1957Al Hunter Ashton, English actor and screenwriter (died 2007)[â ]
Al Hunter Ashton, born Alan Hunter, was a British actor and script writer.
1957Philippe Couillard, Canadian surgeon and politician, 31st Premier of Quebec[â ]
Philippe Couillard is a Canadian business advisor and former neurosurgeon, university professor and politician who served as 31st premier of Quebec from 2014 to 2018. Between 2003 and 2008, he was Quebec's Minister of Health and Social Services in Jean Charest's Liberal government and was MNA for Mont-Royal until he resigned in 2008. In the 2014 election, Couillard moved to the riding of Roberval, where he resides. He was the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018. He resigned as Liberal leader and MNA on October 4, 2018.
1957Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter and musician[â ]
Patricia Smyth is an American singer and songwriter. She first came into national attention with the rock band Scandal and went on to record and perform as a solo artist. Her distinctive voice and new wave image gained broad exposure through video recordings aired on cable music video channels such as MTV. Her debut solo album Never Enough was well received, and generated a pair of Top 100 hits. In the early 1990s she reached the top 10 with the hit single "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough," a duet with Don Henley of Eagles. She performed and co-wrote with James Ingram the song "Look What Love Has Done" for the 1994 motion picture Junior. The work earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
1957Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and author (born 1878)[â ]
Bruno Alfred Döblin was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). A prolific writer whose Ćuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of literary movements and styles, Döblin is one of the most important figures of German literary modernism. His complete works comprise over a dozen novels ranging in genre from historical novels to science fiction to novels about the modern metropolis; several dramas, radio plays, and screenplays; a true crime story; a travel account; two book-length philosophical treatises; scores of essays on politics, religion, art, and society; and numerous lettersâhis complete works, republished by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag and Fischer Verlag, span more than thirty volumes. His first published novel, Die drei SprĂŒnge des Wang-lung, appeared in 1915 and his final novel, Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende was published in 1956, one year before his death.
1957Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (born 1909)[â ]
Clarence Malcolm Lowry was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[â ]