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A strike by teamsters who haul milk to the metropolitan area was begun last night. The strikers carry more than 75 per cent of the supply for 12,000,000 consumers.
Spanish troops kill 7 Moroccans in Ifni during 48-hr fighting; 5 Moroccan chiefs seek aid from King Mohammed V; Govt protests to Spain; Ifni described; map
Mohn testifies Hoffa spoke to him about charters for 7 paper locals; holds Beck approved issuance; concedes charters were issued irregularly, but denies they were issued to rig election; illus; McClellan comments
Sterns, in Prague, deny spying; US Embassy aide knows of no spy in Embassy
Eisenhower confs with Dulles, other US officials; Dulles and Brit Amb Caccia conf
1957Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player[†]
Finlay Calder OBE is a Scotland international former rugby union player.
1957Jim Calder, Scottish rugby player[†]
James Hamilton Calder is a former Scotland international rugby union player.
1957Simon Donaldson, English mathematician and academic[†]
Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. He is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York, and a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London.
1957Sorin Antohi, Romanian journalist and historian[†]
Sorin Antohi is a Romanian historian, essayist, and journalist.
1957Paul Johnson, American football coach[†]
Paul Clayton Johnson is a former American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Georgia Southern University from 1997 to 2001, the United States Naval Academy from 2002 to 2007, and Georgia Tech, from 2008 to 2018, compiling a career college football coaching record of 189–100. Johnson's Georgia Southern Eagles won consecutive NCAA Division I-AA Football Championships in 1999 and 2000. Noted for his use of the flexbone spread option offense, Johnson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2023.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]