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WASHINGTON, June 12 -- Sherman Adams acknowledged today that he had communicated three times with Federal agencies on cases involving his friend, Bernard Goldfine. He denied, however, that he had ever sought or had got preferred treatment for the New England industrialist.
House, 211-192, rejects 3 Eisenhower amendments; passes bill, 402-1
ALEXANDRIA, La., June 12 -- A youth with suicide on his mind piloted a light plane over two states today, finally losing Air Force pursuers it northern Louisiana.
Brit 3d Parachute Bn to be flown in to reinforce troops; Conservative MPs score Canterbury Abp's inv to Makarios to visit London for Lambeth Conf; Foot imposes tight bans on pub activities as riots continue in major cities; Makarios hanged in effigy, Istanbul; illus
1958Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (born 1887)[†]
Edwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel, was an English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic. He served as the president of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge between 1948 and 1956.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]