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WASHINGTON, May 7 -- House and Senate conferees agreed today on a compromise $576,400,000 military pay rise bill designed to attract and keep skilled officers and men in service.
Eisenhower personally solicits support for plan among business friends; D Belding comments; Citizens Com for Hoover Rept backs plan; Asst Sec McGuire says plan will end procurement confusion, com
off 11,000 to 442,500; NYC claims off 5,000 to 237,500
conf ends; communique
Gerosa releases '56 rept charging Bur with serious adm failures despite Estimate Bd members agreement to keep it confidential; Gerosa-Wagner break seen; Gerosa sent rept to Wagner but they withheld it from pub and other Estimate Bd members; Gerosa claims $200,000 saved, Apr '55-Apr '56, by reducing 'excessive' maintenance bills charged by private cos; holds audits for later periods will show more overcharges; explains why he did not pub rept in '56; Wagner silent; supplemental rept revs progress in carrying out 76 recommendations for ending Bur malpractices; many proposals similar to those made by Preusse; '56 rept stresses Bur ignored proposal to raise S M Wilson bond; Gerosa claims Bur has no power to appt mgt agents for property; holds Bur sometimes let contracts without required pub bidding; other data
1958Roddy Doyle, Irish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter[†]
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
1958Brooks Newmark, American-English businessman and politician, Lord of the Treasury[†]
Brooks Phillip Victor Newmark is a former British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament and minister. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Braintree in the 2005 general election and stood down at the 2015 general election.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]