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May 27, 1948
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Headlines from May 27, 1948
COMMUNIST GAINS END FINNS' CRISIS; Paasikivi Yields Two Cabinet Posts to Leftists -- Leino's Wife Gets One IN FINLAND'S CABINET COMMUNIST GAINS END FINNS' CRISIS
Named Soc Affairs Min
Draft Bill Faces New Hurdle As Civil Rights Rider Looms; Langer Proposes Hitching Racial Program to Defense Measure -- Gurney Hits Use of Security as a 'Vehicle' Draft Program Faces New Hurdle As Civil Rights Tie-In Is Proposed
Sen Langer proposes civil rights rider to draft bill; Sen Gurney scores move
'Voice' Broadcasts Infuriate Senate; Descriptions of States Held 'Lies'; 'VOICE' BROADCASTS INFURIATE SENATE
NBC descriptions of States, Voice of Amer broadcasts, rouse Sens ire
CONDITIONS ASKED; 7 Moslem States Want Halt in Flow of Arms and Immigrants ISRAEL SPURNS THREATS Eban Says New Nation Will Not Quail -- U. N. Council Meets Today for a Decision ARABS TURN DOWN CEASE-FIRE PLEA
Arab League rejects cease-fire as favoring Israel; cites UN failure to guarantee implementation; Eban replies; insists Israel will not abandon statehood to gain peace; Security Council weighs action; delegates silent; Azzam sees war until Arab State is formed
Notable Births
1948Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant (died 2017)[โ ]
Wubbo de Boer was a Dutch civil servant.
1948Pete Sears, English bass player[โ ]
Peter Roy Sears is an English rock musician. In a career spanning more than six decades, he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s, folk, country music, arena rock in the 1970s, and blues. He usually plays bass, keyboards, or both in bands.

1948Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, American occultist and author (died 2014)[โ ]
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, born as Diana Moore, subsequently known as Morning Glory Ferns, Morning Glory Zell and briefly Morning G'Zell, was an American community leader, writer, and lecturer in Neopaganism, as well as a priestess of the Church of All Worlds. An advocate of polyamory, she is credited with coining the word. With her husband Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, she designed deity images.