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Electronic computers in Cambridge, Mass., and Washington have digested a mass of reports on the Soviet earth satellite and have come up with two similar but not identical orbits.
Eisenhower confs with Cabinet and other defense officials, reptdly on speeding US program; Sec McElroy, Holaday, Quarles, Asst Sec McNeil attend; Dem Advisory Com assails Adm on USSR feat; charges complacency
13 NY rank-and-file teamsters ask Fed Dist Ct bar Hoffa, others from taking office, hold Teamsters and officials in contempt for failing to seat only legally chosen delegates; McClellan asks every local to supply data on delegates; Beck comments; says he will resign Oct 15
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22 nations join US to sponsor resolution; official text varies slightly from draft; Dr Belaunde (Peru) criticizes USSR stand on inspection, UN com
1957Clémentine Célarié, French actress, singer, and director[†]
Clémentine Célarié is a French actress, writer, director and singer.
1957Serge Clerc, French comic book artist and illustrator[†]
Serge Clerc is a French comic book artist and illustrator. Serge Clerc began his professional career in 1975 in the monthly magazine Métal Hurlant, after having created his own fanzine, Absolutely Live. Initially a science-fiction artist, his story Captain Futur appeared in book form in 1979 by Les Humanoïdes Associés.
1957Mike Dowler, Welsh football goalkeeper[†]
Mike Dowler is a Welsh retired professional football goalkeeper. He spent most of his career in the U.S. indoor leagues where he was named the 1995 Continental Indoor Soccer League Goalkeeper of the Year.
1957Annik Honoré, Belgian journalist and music promoter (died 2014)[†]
Annik Honoré was a Belgian journalist and music promoter best known for her association with Ian Curtis, the former lead singer and lyricist of Joy Division. She co-founded record labels Les Disques du Crépuscule and Factory Benelux.
1957William F. Laurance, Australian biologist[†]
William F. Laurance, also known as Bill Laurance, is Distinguished Research Professor at James Cook University, Australia and has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He has received an Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. He held the Prince Bernhard Chair for International Nature Conservation at Utrecht University, Netherlands from 2010 to 2014.
1957Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (born 1865)[†]
Arie de Jong was a Dutch enthusiast and reformer of the constructed language Volapük by Johann Martin Schleyer, with whose help the Volapük movement gained new strength in the Netherlands. He not only revised Volapük, but also began Volapükaklub Valemik Nedänik and founded Diläd valemik Feda Volapükaklubas. He also founded and edited Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, an independent newspaper in Volapük, which ran for thirty-one years (1932–1963). He wrote Gramat Volapüka, a grammar of the language completely in Volapük, and a German-Volapük dictionary, Wörterbuch der Weltsprache. He translated the New Testament into Volapük from Greek, as well as many other pieces of literature. Arie de Jong is justly considered the most important Volapükist of a new age of Volapük history.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]