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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-- The Air Force has placed a policy paper before the Joint Chiefs of Staff taking exception to Army proposals for a major program to develop anti-missile missiles.
gives data on personal income to US radio program; por; program panelist H Schwartz says income is equal to $50,000 (US)
s to Chicago Foreign Relations Council; holds news conf
US releases about 1/4 of $40 million in Egyptian assets frozen since seizure of Suez Canal by Egypt; pays $600,000 to joint fund for rural development under '53 agreement; payment is 1st since '56 Suez crisis
Gibbons ask Teamsters officials give $1,000 each to defense fund for leaders under attack by Fed, State or local prosecutors or by McClellan com; denies money is for Hoffa's defense; hopes to raise $150,000; Hoffa comments
1957Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (born 1873)[†]
Francis Burton Harrison was an American-Filipino statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives and was appointed governor-general of the Philippines by President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. Harrison was a prominent adviser to the president of the Philippine Commonwealth, as well as the next four presidents of the Republic of the Philippines. He is the only former governor-general of the Philippines to be awarded Philippine citizenship.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]