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November 26, 1948

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TWO NEW CITY UNITS PROPOSED BY MAYOR TO HANDLE TRAFFIC; Charter Amendment Would Set Up a Commission to Form Rules, Long-Range Plans PARKING METERS WEIGHED Department Under Engineer Would Make Survey -- Police Face a Curb on Powers TWO TRAFFIC UNITS PROPOSED BY MAYOR

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NYC Charter amendment to create traffic dept and comm to be offered by Councilman Sharkey; comm duties and powers outlined; police power curbed, but 2 clauses provide increase in emergencies; comm to advise on st widening

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Notable Births

Elizabeth Blackburn

1948Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate.

Claes Elfsberg

1948Claes Elfsberg, Swedish journalist[†]

Claes-Gösta Elfsberg is a Swedish television journalist.

1948Marianne Muellerleile, American actress[†]

Marianne Muellerleile is an American actress.

Galina Prozumenshchikova

1948Galina Prozumenshchikova, Ukrainian-Russian swimmer and journalist (died 2015)[†]

Galina Nikolayevna Prozumenshchikova was a Soviet breaststroke swimmer who also competed in medley relays. She won five Olympic medals in 1964, 1968 and 1972 and five European Championships medals in 1966 and 1970. Her first Olympic medal, the gold in 200 m breaststroke in 1964, was the first Olympic gold in swimming for the Soviet Union. From 1964 to 1966, she set five world records: four in 200 m and one in 100 m breaststroke events. Between 1963 and 1972, she won 15 national titles and set 27 national records.

1948Peter Wheeler, English rugby player[†]

Peter John Wheeler, CBE is a former England international rugby union player who played hooker and was Chief Executive of Leicester Tigers.