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July 6, 1957

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STASSEN SEEKING BOMB CONVERSION TO INDUSTRY USE; Says U.S. Would Allot 53% of Any Energy Total Fixed Against Soviet's 47% Qualifications Listed Leeway for Experiments Stassen Urges Bomb Conversion For Industry in London Parley Soviet Offer Recalled Soviet Decision Awaited

By Drew Middleton Special To the New York Times

LONDON, July 5--The United States asked the Soviet Union today to join in dismantling a proportion of their nuclear weapons and transferring the fissionable material thus obtained to industrial use.

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Bonn House Votes Ratification Of Trade and Atomic Pool Pacts; BONN HOUSE VOTES FOR TWO TREATIES Enthusiasm Is Limited French to Vote Tuesday

By Arthur J. Olsen Special To the New York Times

Under Sec Faure urges ratification; W Ger Parliament approves ratification

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2 MORE RUSSIANS OUSTED FROM HIGH CABINET POSTS; ZHUKOV ASSAILS MOLOTOV; ECONOMISTS OUT Pervukhin and Saburov Are Removed as First Deputy Premiers Demoted in Party Earlier 4 Remain in Cabinet Pervukhin and Saburov Removed From High Soviet Cabinet Posts Konev Also Speaks Treachery Is Charged

By William J. Jorden Special To the New York Times.the New York Times

Pervukhin and Saburov removed as 1st Deputy Premiers; no reason given; they are not linked to ousted 'anti-party' group; Pervukhin apparently remains Medium Machine Bldg Min; A N Kosygin, new Presidium alternate, named Deputy Premier; Mins Council now consists of Premier Bulganin and Deputy Premiers Mikoyan, Kuzmin and Kosygin; Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich scored at meeting of top mil leaders; Zhukov singles out Molotov; says not 1 Central Com member backed accused antiy-party group; Marshal Konev says Molotov 'understands Lenin wrongly'; top leaders and Govt propaganda apparatus push program to win pub support for shake-up; over 8,000 meetings reptd held in Moscow alone; Ukrainian Premier Kalchenko makes bitter personal attack on Kaganovich

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PEIPING APPROVES KREMLIN OUSTERS; Chinese Send Brief Message to Soviet Party Endorsing Dismissal of 4 Leaders PEIPING APPROVES KREMLIN OUTSTERS

By Tillman Durdin Special To the New York Times

Chinese Communist Central Com message to USSR approves shake-up; text as recd in Hong Kong; Brit circles hear Mao Tse-tung may have urged Khrushchev to eliminate hard-core Stalinists in talks with Voroshilov during latter's visit to Peiping

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HOLIDAY CAR TOLL MOUNTS IN NATION; Road Deaths Reach 221-- Officials Plead for Care in Week-End Driving One Fireworks Death HOLIDAY CAR TOLL MOUNTS IN NATION

By Unknown Author

The Fourth of July week-end grew hotter and grimmer yesterday. Temperatures soared above 90 in many places and the nation's accident death toll rose to 403 in the first half of the four-day holiday.

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Notable Births

1957Phil Mallow, American politician^[†]

Phil Mallow is an American politician serving as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.

Historical Events

1957Althea Gibson wins at the Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.^[†]

Althea Neale Gibson was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam event. The following year she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals, then won both again in 1958 and was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years. In all, she won 11 Grand Slam titles: five singles titles, five doubles titles, and one mixed doubles title. "She is one of the greatest players who ever lived," said Bob Ryland, a tennis contemporary and former coach of Venus and Serena Williams." Martina [Navratilova] couldn't touch her. I think she'd beat the Williams sisters." Gibson was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971 and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1980. In the early 1960s, she also became the first Black player to compete in the Ladies Professional Golf Association.

1957John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.^[†]

John Winston Ono Lennon was an English singer-songwriter, musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.

Historical Context for July 6, 1957

In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people^[†]