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TWA world service halts as 1,400 pilots and co-pilots strike; over 3,000 passengers stranded; cargo transferred to other transport means; Frye favors Govt seizure if strike is prolonged; Natl Mediation Bd plans conf; pay issue discussed; token picket lines set up, Kansas City and LaGuardia Field; illus; Frye statement
on HMS Queen Elizabeth's maiden voyage
welcomes USSR Foreign Min Molotov on latter's arrival, NYC
receipts, 12 chief markets, noted; Sioux City and Ogden, Utah, yds embargo cattle shipments
K Harriman repts end of educ is to serve State
1946Claude Charron, Canadian educator and politician[†]
Claude Charron is a former CEGEP teacher, provincial politician, writer and broadcaster. He became Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the youngest Member of the National Assembly of Quebec.
1946Godfrey Chitalu, Zambian footballer (died 1993)[†]
Godfrey Chitalu, nicknamed Ucar, was a Zambian footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the greatest Zambian player of all time as he holds his national team's goalscoring record and was voted Zambian footballer of the year five times. In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African footballers of the past 50 years. Chitalu is the all-time African men's top goal scorer in international football with 79 goals.
1946Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and author[†]
Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author, new age guru, and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. In the 1990s, Chopra, a physician by education, became a popular proponent of a holistic approach to well-being that includes yoga, meditation, and nutrition, among other new-age therapies.
1946Elizabeth Connell, South African mezzo-soprano (died 2012)[†]
Frances Elizabeth Connell was a South African-born operatic mezzo-soprano, and later soprano, whose career took place mainly in the United Kingdom and Australia.
1946Kelvin MacKenzie, English journalist[†]
Kelvin Calder MacKenzie is an English media executive and a former newspaper editor. He became editor of The Sun in 1981, by which time the publication had been established as Britain's largest-circulation newspaper. After leaving The Sun in 1994, he was appointed to executive roles in satellite television and other broadcasting outlets, as well as being involved in a number of publishing enterprises.
1946Jaime Nebot, Ecuadorian politician[†]
Jaime José Nebot Saadi is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician. He formerly served as mayor of Guayaquil, which is Ecuador's largest city. He is affiliated with the Christian Social Party (PSC) and the Madera de Guerrero Civic Movement. Nebot ran twice for president of Ecuador, in 1992 losing against Sixto Duran-Ballén, and in 1996 losing against Abdalá Bucaram.
1946Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern Germany are forced to relocate to the Soviet Union, along with their families and equipment.[†]
Operation Osoaviakhim was a secret Soviet operation in which more than 2,500 German specialists from companies and institutions relevant to military and economic policy in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (SBZ) and Berlin, as well as around 4,000 more family members, totalling more than 6,000 people, were taken from former Nazi Germany as war reparations to the Soviet Union. It took place in the early morning hours of October 22, 1946 when MVD and Soviet Army units under the direction of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD), headed by Ivan Serov, rounded up German scientists and transported them by rail to the USSR.