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A formidable cordon of security police, consisting of 165 city policemen, United Nations guards, city detectives and two patrol cars, was on hand yesterday for the opening of the special session of the United Nations General Assembly on Palestine at Flushing Meadow.
LI RR workers vote to rejoin Rr Trainmen Brotherhood; UMWA Dist 50 ousted; election described; previous strikes instigated by UMWA revd, NYS
conf with Sec Marshall
debated, House; voting blocked by introduction of new curbs on fund allotments; other curbs planned; proposed curbs to face vote
Assembly opens special session on Palestine
1947Tommy James, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer[†]
Tommy James is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. James is the frontman of the rock band Tommy James and the Shondells, which is known for hit singles such as "Mony Mony", "Crimson and Clover" and "I Think We're Alone Now".
1947Johnny Miller, American golfer and sportscaster[†]
John Laurence Miller is an American former professional golfer. He was one of the top players in the world during the mid-1970s. He was the first to shoot 63 in a major championship to win the 1973 U.S. Open, and he ranked second in the world on Mark McCormack's world golf rankings in both 1974 and 1975 behind Jack Nicklaus. Miller won 25 PGA Tour events, including two majors. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1998. He was the lead golf analyst for NBC Sports, a position he held from January 1990 to February 2019. He is also an active golf course architect.
1947Jim Ryun, American runner and politician[†]
James Ronald Ryun is an American former Republican politician and Olympic track and field athlete, who at his peak was widely considered the world's top middle-distance runner. He won a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and was the first high school athlete to run a mile in under four minutes. He is the last American to hold the world record in the mile run. Ryun later served in the United States House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing Kansas's 2nd congressional district.
1947Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (born 1867)[†]
Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced", an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman.