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1948Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress (died 2022)[â ]
Dame Olivia Newton-John was a British and Australian singer and actress. With over 100 million records sold, Newton-John was one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the highest-selling female Australian recording artist of all time.
1948VladimĂr Remek, Czech politician, diplomat, cosmonaut and military pilot[â ]
VladimĂr Remek is a Czech politician and diplomat, as well as a former cosmonaut and military pilot. He flew aboard Soyuz 28 from 2 to 10 March 1978, becoming the first and only Czechoslovak in space. As the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, and with the entry of the Czech Republic and Slovakia into the European Union, Remek is considered to be the first astronaut from the European Union. Remek was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2013 for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia. From 2014 to 2018, he was the Czech Ambassador to Russia.
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40 hurt as Communists try to break up de Gaullist meeting, Paris; Assembly overrides Council vote against postponing elections; party regroupings, Assembly, as result of election issue noted
WHAT with all the murder and mayhem that have cluttered the screen of late -- the shooting and slashing and slugging and the strangling of people with ropes -- it has come as a great relaxation to have had a brief series of recent films in which violence has been inconspicuous and a certain amount of humanity has prevailed.
WEST POINT, N. Y., Sept. 25 -- Grinding out four touchdowns against the stubborn resistance of a good Villanova team. Army's gold-helmeted football legions made an impressive 1948 debut today. The Cadets had a battle on their hands at first but once Earl Blaik's powerful machine started to roll it was no contest.
charges Repubs threatened cheap pub power, El Paso; cites Repr Dondero article in Pub Utilities Fortnightly (pub) as proof of Repub plan to give benefits of Fed-built dams to private utilities
The United Nations General Assembly met last week in Paris to take up the world's explosive problems -- while far from the banks of the Seine there were indications that those problems were becoming more explosive than ever.
DETROIT, Sept. 25 -- Their confidence unshaken by yesterday's setback, the Indiana rebounded handsomely against the Tigers today, keeping pace with the victorious Red Sox as Gene Bearden fashioned a seven-hit, 9-3 triumph. Thus, with each side to play only six more games, the Cleveland and Boston clubs are locked in a dead heat for first place.
Ward, B: West at Bay
NYC and Washington theatre groups conf to solve problem; dispute since '47 revd
stock offering issue revd
SINCE the cost of producing musical entertainments on Broadway is colossal, the appearance of three of them within a week argues a race of supermen. But the feeling of awe in the presence of huge pots of money stops there.
Still affected by the great riddle of the post-war period -- the imminence of deflation or inflation -- the market for high-grade investments faces this week a series of challenges likely to yield some clues to the course of long-term interest rates, at least for the time being.