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L Wallstein, counsel for W J Schieffelin, Chmn of Citizens Union, asks N Y Supreme Court to block former Comr Enright's pension on charge that Hylan granted it in violation of Home Rule act
Sec of Labor J J Davis fails, in visit to Phila, to conciliate miners and operators; conferees clash over arbitration; resolution in R I Legis seeks intervention by Pres and Cong
LONDON, Jan. 28 (AP). -- An X-ray made immediately after the Prince of Wales's hunting accident showed the fracture of his collar bone to be a simple one and not likely to interfere with his riding for longer than did a similar accident to his right shoulder in 1924.
1926Abdus Salam, Pakistani-British physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)[†]
Mohammad Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani, first Muslim scientist, and second person from any Muslim country to win a Nobel Prize.