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Dems to offer community property bill at coming Legis session
Gen Com debates agenda; US resolutions adopted over USSR objections
GB warns that peace treaty ratification does not mean approval of undem actions by Govt; scores Communist role
to attend Cabinet Food Com conf
1947Jo Beverley, English-Canadian author (died 2016)[†]
Mary Josephine Beverley was a prolific English-Canadian writer of historical and contemporary romance novels from 1988 to 2016.
1947David Drewry, English glaciologist and geophysicist[†]
David John Drewry is a glaciologist and geophysicist who was described in the conferring of an honorary degree by Anglia Ruskin University in 1998 as having an "outstanding reputation as an eminent scientist of international repute". Drewry has also received several awards for his work. Since 1 July 2015 he is the vice-president of the European University Association.
1947Norma McCorvey, American activist (died 2017)[†]
Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey, also known by the pseudonym Jane Roe, was the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional.
1947Robert Morace, American author and academic[†]
Robert Morace is an American writer.