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In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]
1957Thierry Boutsen, Belgian race car driver and businessman[†]
Thierry Marc Alain Boutsen is a Belgian former racing driver, businessman and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1983 to 1993. Boutsen won three Formula One Grands Prix across 11 seasons.
1957Cameron Crowe, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Cameron Bruce Crowe is an American filmmaker and journalist. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Grammy Award as well as a nomination for a Tony Award. Crowe started his career as a contributing editor and writer at Rolling Stone magazine in 1973 where he covered numerous rock bands on tour.
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US Defense Dept drafts, AEC pub handbook Effects of Nuclear Weapons, updating '50 pub; Chmn Strauss, Sec Wilson write foreword; effects described for weapons up to 20-megaton yield; other details
Teamsters Union: D Beck and son indicted, Seattle, for pocketing proceeds of sale of 3 Cadillacs owned by Teamsters
Eisenhower urges agencies to hold '58 spending and contract signing to '57 levels; request made through confidential lr from Budget Bur to agency heads; Dems see 'hypocrisy'; directive theoretically may mean $2-3 billion in cuts; Cannon calls off Appropriations Com hearings because com lacks basis for determining appropriations, 3 subcoms also adjourn; Rayburn, Martin, Taber comment on lr
Councilman Jeremiah B. Bloom was cleared yesterday of any possible violation of conflict-ofinterest provisions of the City Charter.
Zorin offers to negotiate suspension period duration, subcom; Stassen sees concession; Brit delegation not hopeful
Pres Eisenhower signs bill but criticizes several aspects; stresses it provides more than double authority requested; Natl Assn of Home Bldrs hails bill
Moscow Izvestia suggests Molotov ouster may improve ties; Kardelj and Rankovic in Crimea; Yugoslav Amb Micunovic repts long and 'fruitful' talk with Khrushchev after shake-up
repts increasing evidence that excessive cigarette smoking is a causative factor of lung cancer
special NYC census shows NYC now ranks 3d in world, Tokyo 1st, London 2d
will; grandson Prince Karim inherits leadership of Moslem Ismaili sect; fortune goes to widow and 2 sons Aly and Sadruddin
Eisenhower flies in helicopter from White House to secret mt-top relocation center during Operation Alert; is 1st Pres to fly in craft; illus; he comments
For eight minutes in New York and other northeastern states time stopped at 1:47 o' clock yesterday afternoon.