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Fed Reserve Bd indus output index down 2 points to 139, Nov; off 3% since Sept; graph
subway strike ends after NYS Repub leaders back Mitchell bill to shift control over designation of bargaining agent from NYCTA to SLRB; Wagner, Harriman, Mitchell assure strikers of 'fair treatment'; Waldman says Wagner barred summary dismissals, agreed Rifkind would have final authority to pass on charges against motormen, that special fund would be set up to adjust skilled workers' pay, and that city would urge immediate release of 4 MBA leaders; Quill comments; Wagner opposes use of labor spies, planting of microphones in union hdgrs
Austin dismissed by Higher Educ Bd; Bd backs $35,150,000 budget request
USN Asst Sec Norton derides proposals for US 'crash' program for (pace conquest as 'Buck-Rogers'-type thinking, Sen (Johnson) subcom; urges US defer such projects, concentrate on developing missiles; comments on Vanguard test failure; scores publicity; blames Snyder; Snyder replies; Norton repts Vanguard satellite will be launched on schedule
Sup Ct rules Const double jeopardy clause bars Green retrial
1957Wendy Hoyte, English sprinter[†]
Wendy Patricia Hoyte is a British former sprinter, who won a 1982 Commonwealth Games gold medal and a 1982 European Championships silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay. She also competed at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. She is the holder of the United Kingdom indoor 50 m record, which she set in 1981. As of 2016, the record still stands.
1957Bob Ojeda, American baseball player and coach[†]
Robert Michael Ojeda is an American former professional baseball player, coach and television sports color commentator. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a left-handed pitcher from 1980 to 1994, most notably as a member of the New York Mets, with whom he won a world championship in 1986. He also played for the Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees. Ojeda was the lone survivor of a March 22, 1993, boating accident that killed fellow Cleveland Indians players Steve Olin and Tim Crews. He is a former pre- and post-game studio analyst for Mets' broadcasts.
1957Dorothy L. Sayers, English author, poet, and playwright (born 1893)[†]
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.
1957The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.[†]
The SM-65 Atlas was the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family. It was built for the U.S. Air Force by the Convair Division of General Dynamics at an assembly plant located in Kearny Mesa, San Diego.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]