Editing 1957 (section)

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* [[Mao Zedong]] admits that 800,000 "[[Enemy of the people|class enemies]]" had been [[Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries|summarily liquidated]] in [[China]] between [[1949]] and [[1954]].
* [[Gruppe SPUR]], an artistic collaboration, is founded in Germany. 
* [[Raja Fashions]], a tailoring business, is founded in [[Hong Kong]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Confessore |first=Nick |author-link=Nicholas Confessore |title=His Mission: Freeing Men From the Rack |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/nyregion/his-mission-freeing-men-from-the-rack.html?_r=0 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 22, 2005 |access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref>
* The so-called 'mound of [[Midas]]', the Great [[Tumulus]] near [[Gordium]], is excavated.
* Three new neo-[[Grotesque (typeface classification)|grotesque]] [[sans-serif]] [[typeface]]s are released: [[Folio (typeface)|Folio]] (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), [[Helvetica|Neue Haas Grotesk]] (designed by [[Max Miedinger]]) and [[Univers]] (designed by [[Adrian Frutiger]]); all will be influential in the [[International Typographic Style]] of [[graphic design]].