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The "biggest sucker set-up" in years was broken up yesterday when detectives raided a two-room suite in the Hotel Marguery, 270 Park Avenue. They seized "educated" dice, marked cards, transparent mirrors, an electric signaling device and a concealed coatsleeve card manipulator.
In a hearing room supercharged with tension, the Government formally lodged yesterday an amended deportation count against John Santo, international organization director of the Transport Workers Union, CIO, terming him a Communist and as such a subversive and undesirable alien.
ROME, Sept. 11 -- All Allied troops in Italy will have left the country by Dec. 14 following the coming into effect of the peace treaty on Monday, Lieut. Gen. John C.H. Lee, Allied commander in Italy, announced today. Thereafter 5,000 American and 5,000 British soldiers will garrison the Free Territory of Trieste along with 5,000 Yugoslav troops, in accordance with the treaty.
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Sept. 11 -- The outline of a powerful international atomic agency that would own all militarily dangerous ores and plants was approved today by the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission -- with the full blessing of the United States and the firm opposition of the Soviet Union.
1947David Grant, English engineer and academic[†]
Sir David Grant FLSW is a British academic who was the vice-chancellor of Cardiff University in Wales from 2001 to 2012. Following his appointment, Grant oversaw the merger between Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine, which was completed in 2004, and the award of university status to Cardiff.
1947Gerald Howarth, English soldier, pilot, and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy[†]
Sir James Gerald Douglas Howarth is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aldershot from 1997 until 2017, having been the MP for Cannock and Burntwood from 1983 to 1992.
1947Christopher Neame, English actor[†]
Christopher Neame is an English actor who resides in the United States.