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UE members reject settlement after leaders agree to end demonstrations and abide by NLRB decision; will defy troops; vote; Judge Klapp's mass-picketing injunction cited; L Wornstaff, A L Garfield and K M Kirkendall subpoenaed by House labor subcom
Rain that fell intermittently throughout the day cut attendance at the city's parks, beaches and playgrounds almost to the vanishing point yesterday.
Repub leaders map plans to end filibuster against Wherry motion to bring repeal bill before Sen
Rapid transit and surface lines show traffic drop, July; jams continue; NY Commerce & Indus Assn survey shows downtown Manhattan cos willing to stagger working hrs to ease congestion
Tanjug repts Amb to Rumania R Golubovitch dismissed for betraying country in dispute with Cominform; Golubovitch refuses to return; says he resigned because of Govt failure to admit Cominform charges; denounced by Embassy staff, Budapest; Yugoslav failure to publish 3 lrs of rebuke from USSR sent before Cominform attack revealed; cordial USSR relation at Danube conf noted
1948Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[ā ]
Andrew Fairweather Low is a Welsh guitarist and singer. He was a founding member and lead singer of 1960s pop band Amen Corner, and in recent years has toured extensively with Roger Waters, Eric Clapton and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.
1948Dennis Prager, American radio host and author[ā ]
Dennis Mark Prager is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prager Show. In 2009, he co-founded PragerU, which creates content advocating capitalism and promoting conservative viewpoints on various political, economic, and sociological topics.
1948Tapan Kumar Sarkar, Indian-American electrical engineer and academic (died 2021)[ā ]
Tapan Kumar Sarkar was an Indian-American electrical engineerĀ and professor emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. He was best known for his contributions to computational electromagnetics and antenna theory.
1948James Street, American football and baseball player (died 2013)[ā ]
James Lowell Street was a two-sport star athlete at the University of Texas. As quarterback, he led the team to the 1969 National Championship in football and posted a perfect 20-0 record, the most wins without a loss in Longhorns history. As a pitcher he was a two time All-American who threw the only perfect game in University of Texas history.
1948Snoo Wilson, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2013)[ā ]
Andrew James Wilson, better known as Snoo Wilson, was an English playwright, screenwriter and director. His early plays such as Blow-Job (1971) were overtly political, often combining harsh social comment with comedy. In his later works he moved away from purely political themes, embracing a range of surrealist, magical, philosophical and madcap, darkly comic subjects.