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September 12, 1957

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LINCOLN SQ. RIVALS CLASH AT HEARING BEFORE PLANNERS; Views Are Exchanged on Lincoln Square Project LINCOLN SQ. FOES CLASH AT HERRING Isaacs Favors Campus Cooperation Is Promised Door Open, McGinley Says

By Paul Crowellthe New York Times

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POPE SAYS CLERGY MUST KEEP WATCH ON RADIO AND TV; Orders World-Wide Scrutiny to Classify Programs on Basis of Decency 'Positive Action' Urged Pope Instructs Clergy to Check Radio-TV Programs for Decency Pope Exhorts Episcopacy Pontiff Warns Patrons

By Arnaldo Cortesi Special To the New York Times

Pope orders world-wide supervision of TV and radio, encyclical; orders Decency Legion extend services; orders creation of natl offices in all nations

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Louisville Remains Calmly Integrated; LOUISVILLE CALM AMID INTEGRATION

By Wayne Phillips Special To the New York Times

Louisville in 2d yr of integration; illus; some Negroes who entered white schools seen returning to segregated ones; major reasons for lag in Negroes entering white schools noted; Carmichael hopes for integrated faculties to speed pupil integration

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'Huck Finn' Barred As Textbook by City; CITY'S TEXT LIST DROPS 'HUCK FINN' Heard no Objections

By Leonard Buder

Educ Bd drops Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from approved textbook lists for elementary and jr hss; book still bought for school libraries; Assoc Supt Huggard says book was dropped as matter of selection; publisher repts his pact voided because of passages in book 'derogatory to Negroes,'

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MISSION TO SOVIET ON HUNGARY ASKED; Briton Bids U. N. Send Thai Prince to Negotiate With High Kremlin Leaders MISSION TO SOVIET ON HUNGARY ASKED Ceylonese Gives Stand

By Thomas J. Hamilton Special To the New York Times.the New York Times

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Sept. 11--Britain today accused the Soviet Union, rather than the present Hungarian regime, of responsibility for "brutal repression" in Hungary.

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Notable Births

1957Paul M. Sharp, British academic and educator^[†]

Paul Martin Sharp is a British bioinformatician who is a professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh, where he holds the Alan Robertson chair of genetics in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology.

1957Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian^[†]

Jan Egeland is a Norwegian diplomat, political scientist, humanitarian leader, and former Labour Party politician who has been Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council since 2013. He served as State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 1997 and as United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from 2003 to 2006.

1957Rachel Ward, English-Australian actress^[†]

Rachel Claire Ward is an English-Australian actress, film director, screenwriter and television director.

1957Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer^[†]

Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, five Grammy Awards, and has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph in 2007.

Historical Context for September 12, 1957

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