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J Reston repts US seeks to include Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland and Portugal; need for Atlantic bases cited; issue of Italy joining discussed
Finkelstein and Toth resign from city rent comm; O'Dwyer announces remaining member C G Coster will be chmn; hotel rise question revd; Finkelstein lr declares he and Toth proud of record; Finkelstein por; Ross comments
Justice Douglas urges US labor role in US diplomatic efforts to curb USSR moves, s, Portland, Ore; says diplomats fail in dealings with labor govts; CIO pres P Murray hails s; Douglas illus
Pres Gallegos ousted; Army takes control; Lt Col Perez Jimenez says minority rule is ended and mil junta of himself, Lt Cols Delgado Chalbaud, Llovera Paez and Vargas will rule under '46 Const; no incidents reptd; US citizens safe; US oil interests disturbed
1948Jacques Dupuis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Deputy Premier of Quebec[†]
Jacques P. Dupuis is a Canadian politician and lawyer. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party and former MNA for Saint-Laurent in the Montreal region, Dupuis is also a former Quebec Minister of Justice and was Minister of Public Security until 2010.
1948Lars Eighner, American author (died 2021)[†]
Laurence "Lars" Eighner Hexamer was an American author and memoirist. He was the author of Travels with Lizbeth, a memoir of homelessness in the American Southwest during the late 1980s, "a book widely regarded as one of the finest memoirs of recent decades." Included as a chapter in that book was the essay "On Dumpster Diving," which is widely anthologized both at full length and in abridged form under the title "My Daily Dives in the Dumpster."
1948Kanbun Uechi, Japanese martial artist, founded Uechi-ryū (born 1877)[†]
Kanbun Uechi was the founder of Uechi-Ryū, one of the primary karate styles of Okinawa.