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June 20, 1946

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SOVIET ATOMIC PLAN BANS USING OR RETAINING BOMBS AND KEEPS BIG-POWER VETO; WOULD END WEAPON Gromyko Asks Assent to Scrap It 3 Months After Pact Approval BARUCH PROGRAM IGNORED Curbs to Bind All Countries Implied in Drastic Statute-- Other Nations Back Us Veto's Retention Stressed Two Committees Proposed Soviet Atomic Plan Bans Using or Retaining Bombs Baruch Defers Comment Gromyko Points to a Choice Would Adhere to Charter

By Thomas J. Hamilton

A A Gromyko warns absence of weapons control intensifies mistrust

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Rights and Lefts to the Head End Yankee Stadium Bout After Slow Start 45,266 ATTEND CONTEST Reciepts of 1,925,564 Also Are Short of Predictions--Billy Retires From Ring LOUIS STOPS CONN IN EIGHTH ROUND AND RETAINS TITLE End of a Career Declines to Vary Plan Cut Under Left Eye LOUIS STOPS CONN IN EIGHTH ROUND Referee Assists Challenger Some Given Away Circles Louis' Right Far Below 1941 Form Billy Takes No Chances; THE CHAMPION SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDING HIS HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE LAST NIGHT

By James P. Dawsonthe New York Timesthe New York Times

With a volley of thunderous rights and lefts to the head and jaw, a succession of blows that came suddenly, with flashing speed, unerring aim and paralyzing power, Joe Louis last night...

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TRUMAN ASKS SPEED ON FUND FOR UNRRA; STRESSES FOOD LACK; Urges Congress Vote Balance Authorized, $465,000,000, in Report for Quarter U.S. SENDS 65% OF VALUE Shipments Called 'Bare Basis' for Nations' Recoveries-- Ukraine Gratitude Told Livestock Revival by 1960 Truman Urges Speedy Voting Of $465,000,000 to UNRRA We Sent 71% of Tonnage

By Bess Furman Special To the New York Times

Submits qrly rept on UNRRA to Cong; urges appropriation of $465,000,000 previously authorized

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Notable Births

Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester

1946Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester[†]

Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester is a Danish-born member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a grandson of King George V.

Xanana Gusmão

1946Xanana Gusmão, Timorese soldier and politician, 1st President of East Timor[†]

José Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmão is an East Timorese politician. He has served as the 6th prime minister of East Timor since 2023, previously serving in that position from 2007 to 2015. A former rebel, he also served as East Timor's first president since its re-establishment of independence from 2002 to 2007.

David Kazhdan

1946David Kazhdan, Russian-Israeli mathematician and academic[†]

David Kazhdan, born Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan, is a Soviet and Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory. Kazhdan is a 1990 MacArthur Fellow.

1946Bob Vila, American television host[†]

Robert Joseph Vila is an American home improvement television show host known for This Old House (1979–1989), Bob Vila's Home Again (1990–2005), and Bob Vila (2005–2007).

André Watts

1946André Watts, American pianist and educator (died 2023)[†]

André Watts was an American classical pianist. Over the six decades of his career, Watts performed as soloist with every major American orchestra and most of the world's finest orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, and London Symphony Orchestra. Watts recorded a variety of repertoire, concentrating on Romantic era composers such as Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, but also including George Gershwin. In 2020, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He won a Grammy Award for Best New Classical Artist in 1964. Watts was also on the faculty at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University.