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Says Newark tax assessment against Standard Oil Co of N J will be tested in cts
LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 14. -- Pittsburgh's mighty power cracked Nebraska's football barriers today and generated the momentum for a decisive victory over the Cornhuskers, 19 to 6, in a hard-fought intersectional battle on Memorial Field.
Benefit luncheon planned, N Y C
1936H. B. Bailey, American race car driver (died 2003)[†]
Herring Burl "H. B." Bailey was a NASCAR driver. He raced his No. 36 Pontiac part-time as an independent driver in the Grand National/Winston Cup series from 1962 to 1993, making 85 races over his career.
1936Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Karl Wolf Biermann is a German singer-songwriter, poet, and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song "Ermutigung" and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976.
1936Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (died 1998)[†]
Tara Singh Hayer was an Indian-Canadian newspaper publisher and editor who was murdered after his outspoken criticism of fundamentalist violence and terrorism. In particular, he was a key witness in the trial of the Air India Flight 182 bombing.