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Patterson and Joseph to begin work
C L Sulzberger sees US telling Italy aid depends on Communists defeat
1st excerpt from diaries
Taft doubts USSR plans mil aggression
Bldg Construction Trades Council and Bldg Trades Employers Assn to formally accept 30-mo wage stabilization pact; 90% of bldg workers affected; F J Driscoll, H McSpedon and W G Wheeler comment
1948Kate Bornstein, American author and activist[†]
Katherine Vandam Bornstein is an American author, playwright, performance artist, actor, and gender theorist.
1948Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (died 2003)[†]
Sérgio Vieira de Mello was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years. The Government of Brazil posthumously awarded the Sergio Vieira de Mello Medal to honor his legacy in promoting sustainable peace, international security and better living conditions for individuals in situations of armed conflict, challenges to which Sérgio Vieira de Mello had dedicated his life and career.
1948Imanuel Lauster, German engineer (born 1873)[†]
Imanuel Lauster was a German engineer and businessman, who worked for Rudolf Diesel and drew up Diesel’s design for the first Diesel engine, Motor 250/400. He also served as the head of M.A.N.'s board of directors from 1932 to 1934.