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lr on statistics in May 19 article discussing importance; ed comment
Printing indus plant project described; R L McClure comment
foregoes usual weekend cruise
Beaten to death by 3; companion raped
1946Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist and publisher, co-founded The Point (died 2004)[†]
1946James Kelman, Scottish author and playwright[†]
James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction and short stories feature accounts of internal mental processes of usually, but not exclusively, working-class narrators and their labyrinthine struggles with authority or social interactions, mostly set in his home city of Glasgow. Frequently employing stream of consciousness experimentation, Kelman's stories typically feature "an atmosphere of gnarling paranoia, imprisoned minimalism, the boredom of survival."
1946Peter Kilfoyle, English politician[†]
Peter Kilfoyle is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton from 1991 to 2010.
1946Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Italian politician and diplomat, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs[†]
Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata is an Italian diplomat and politician. He was Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs in Mario Monti's government from November 2011 until March 2013, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in New York between 2008 and 2009 and Ambassador of Italy to the United States between 2009 and 2011. He is currently a Senator of the Republic of Italy and the President of the 4th Permanent Senate Commission of EU Affairs elected from the Lombardy constituency as a part of Brothers of Italy. He is also the President of the India-Italy Parliamentary Friendship group.