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DAMASCUS, United Arab Republic, July 17 -- Syria went on a footing of undeclared emergency today.
US starts Bahrein-Jordan oil airlift; repts no change in situation, Iraq and other Mideast countries; Ind Petroleum Assn holds US has ample oil to meet own needs
Army repts re-entry problem solved following recovery of full-scale nose cone after flight from Canaveral; firing and recovery described
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., July 17 -- The Soviet Union announced today that it would call for a special session of the General Assembly if the Security Council did not request the immediate withdrawal of Western troops from Lebanon and Jordan.
House, 241-155, passes Smith bill; votes, 206-88, to add to it Repr Walter bill, which applies only to subversion and sedition laws; Celler scores Smith bill; offers amendment that would apply bill only to future legis and let Cong designate state laws it might want Fed law to supersede
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]