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7% price rise seen, '58, as result of NYC workers pay rise
Excavation delayed for additional financing; tight credit mkt linked
Commonwealth reaction to recent attacks on Queen and monarchy by Muggeridge, Altrincham and J Osborne; Ct, not Queen herself, seen anachronistic; BBC drops Altrincham from TV program
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15-- Vice President Richard M. Nixon said tonight that with the Russian satellite in orbit the United States must think of military strength as a matter vastly more important than cuts in taxes.
to propose voluntary surcharge
1957Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator[†]
Priidu Beier is an Estonian poet and teacher. He has edited several publications and is also a member of the Estonian Writers' Union and Estonian Literary Society. Between 1984 and 1990 he was the Head of the Pedagogical arts sector of Tartu Art Museum. In 2007 he presented a poetry collection in Tartu with Kerti Tergem. He has taught art history at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu.
1957John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (born 1887)[†]
John Anthony Sydney Ritson DSO & Bar, was an English mines inspector and engineer who became professor of mining at Leeds University and at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London. In his early life he was a rugby union player of note playing international rugby for both England and the British and Irish Lions, and was a member of the first ever English Grand Slam winning side. During the First World War he served in the Durham Light Infantry and later commanded a battalion of the Royal Scots.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]