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Castillo Armas, (Pres) C: on assassination; sends son as repr to funeral,'
Washington Embassy assures US that new Govt will continue Castillo policies; Pres Eisenhower, other high officials send condolences; he calls Castillo a personal friend; will send son Maj Eisenhower to represent him at funeral
WASHINGTON, July 27--A soundproof, burglar-proof committee room in the Capitol will be the battleground next week for another partisan fight over whether the Government or private industry should build atomic power plants.
Eisenhower directs Dulles to go to London
NJ Agr Dept puts drought loss at $12.5 million; some rain, NE
1957Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and educator (born 1876)[†]
Edith Abbott was an American economist, statistician, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Abbott was a pioneer in the profession of social work with an educational background in economics. She was a leading activist in social reform with the ideals that humanitarianism needed to be embedded in education. Abbott was also in charge of implementing social work studies to the graduate level. Though she was met with resistance on her work with social reform at the University of Chicago, she ultimately was successful and was elected as the school's dean in 1924, making her one of the first female deans in the United States. Abbott was foremost an educator and saw her work as a combination of legal studies and humanitarian work which shows in her social security legislation. She is known as an economist who pursued implementing social work at the graduate level. Her younger sister was Grace Abbott.Social work will never become a profession—except through the professional schools
1957Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and academic (born 1876)[†]
Isaac Heinemann was an Israeli rabbinical scholar and a professor of classical literature, Hellenistic literature and philology.
1957Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.[†]
Isahaya is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. As of June 1, 2024, the city had an estimated population of 131,467 in 55169 households, and a population density of 380 people per km2. The total area of the city is 341.79 km2 (131.97 sq mi)
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]