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Austin holds truce prerequisite to trusteeship, s, UN pol com
Mayor O'Dwyer repts ps elementary pupils will ride free and pub hs pupils will pay 5c when NYC transit system fare rises; arrangement with Educ Bd to continue
revised Andrews bill offered, House; N Thomas opposes draft, House com
Christian Dem victory confirmed; gives de Gasperi free hand in choosing Cabinet; final Sen results give Christian Dems over 47%; Assembly majority seen larger; attack on ammunition dump, Rocco, reptd; incidents reptd, Milan; V E Orlando and Pope's sister Marquise Mengarini voting illus
Comments on W P Reuther shooting
1948Gary Condit, American businessman and politician[†]
Gary Adrian Condit is an American former politician from California. A Democrat, Condit represented California's 18th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003. He gained significant national attention after the May 2001 disappearance of Chandra Levy, an intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Condit and Levy were having an affair, and she was subsequently found to have been murdered.
1948Paul Davis, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2008)[†]
Paul Lavon Davis was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his radio hits and solo career that started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul, country, and pop. His most successful songs are 1977's "I Go Crazy", a No. 7 pop hit that once held the record for the longest chart run on the Billboard Hot 100, and 1982's "'65 Love Affair", which at No. 6 is his highest-charting single. Another pop hit, "Cool Night", was released in 1981. In the mid-1980s, he also had two No. 1 country hits as a guest vocalist on songs by Marie Osmond and Tanya Tucker.
1948Josef Flammer, Swiss ophthalmologist[†]
Josef Flammer is a Swiss ophthalmologist and long-time director of the Eye Clinic at Basel University Hospital. Flammer is a glaucoma specialist who developed a new pathogenetic concept of glaucomatous damage according to which unstable blood supply leads to oxidative stress, which in turn plays a major role in apoptosis of cells in the optic nerve and retina in glaucoma patients.
1948Dieter Fromm, German runner[†]
Dieter Fromm is a retired East German middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. He held the indoor 800 m world record for over ten years.
1948Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (born 1887)[†]
Aldo Leopold was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fourteen languages and has sold more than two million copies.
1948United Nations Security Council Resolution 47 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.[†]
United Nations Security Council Resolution 47, adopted on 21 April 1948, concerns the resolution of the Kashmir conflict. After hearing arguments from both India and Pakistan, the Council increased the size of the UN Commission created by the former Resolution 39 to five members, instructed the Commission to go to the subcontinent and help the governments of India and Pakistan restore peace and order to the region and prepare for a plebiscite to decide the fate of Kashmir.