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Israelis take Beersheba, isolating Egyptians in Negeb and near Jerusalem; will order cease-fire when Egypt takes same step; Egyptian troops near panic; some withdraw from Isdud toward Gaza; Gaza isolated; Tel Aviv has air raid alert; map; Cairo and Azzam claim Egyptian victories
All-Ger People's Council offers draft Const establishing Communist rule for all Ger
s on labor gains under Dems and warns of Repubs anti-labor anti-pub attitude, s, ACWA rally, Carnegie Hall, NYC; appeals to union members not to waste votes on diversionary candidates; J S Potofsky makes similar appeal; Barkley s at Tammany Hall and at Bklyn rallies
new riots in 3 areas; Socialists charge strike aims at econ sabotage; Bordeaux workers refuse to unload ERP coal from US; 1/2 of miners return to pits in Lorraine area
1948Mike Hendrick, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 2021)[†]
Michael Hendrick was an English cricketer, who played in thirty Tests and twenty-two One Day Internationals for England from 1973 to 1981. He played for Derbyshire from 1969 to 1981, and for Nottinghamshire from 1982 to 1984. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup.
1948Debbie Macomber, American author[†]
Debbie Macomber is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Six of her novels have become made-for-TV movies and her Cedar Cove series of novels was adapted into a television series of the same name. Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted Quill Award for romance in 2005 and has been awarded both a RITA Award and a lifetime achievement award by the Romance Writers of America.