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Harriman to set up 100-member citizens council to spur safety; council will work with Gov's special safety com, be advisory rather than policy-making
Spanish troops seen in control; rev
Arbitration Assn (Cole) panel recommends system-wide, 1-unit election of bargaining repr for NYCTA employes; victory for TWU over Motormen's Benevolent Assn (MBA), other craft unions seen
Eisenhowers at Gettysburg
H S Truman holds cooperation vital to peace, article on high-level Council conf
1957Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian political scientist and politician, Norwegian Minister of Health[†]
Dagfinn Høybråten is a Norwegian politician. He was the leader of the Christian Democratic Party 2004–2011. He was also Parliamentary leader from 2005 when he was elected as Member of Parliament representing Rogaland. He was Vice President of the Norwegian Parliament from 2011 to 2013. He was President of the Nordic Council in 2007. Høybråten was granted leave from his duty as Member of Parliament from March 2013 to take up the position as Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers. He was elected board member of the GAVI Alliance in 2006 and chair of the board from 2011 to 2015.
1957Harrison Ford, American actor (born 1884)[†]
Harrison Ford was an early 20th-century American actor. He was a leading Broadway theater performer and a star of the silent film era.
1957Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American neurophysiologist and psychiatrist (born 1902)[†]
Manfred Joshua Sakel was an Austrian-American neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, credited with developing insulin shock therapy in 1927.
1957United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 relating to the Kashmir conflict is adopted.[†]
United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 was adopted on 2 December 1957. It was the last of three resolutions passed during 1957 to deal with the dispute between the governments of India and Pakistan over the territories of Jammu and Kashmir. It followed a report on the situation by Gunnar Jarring, representative for Sweden which the council had requested in resolution 123. It requests that the governments of India and Pakistan refrain from aggravating the situation, and instructs the United Nations Representative for India and Pakistan to visit the subcontinent and report to the council with recommended action toward further progress.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]