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agenda log jam seen forcing special session later; adjournment date controversy discussed
repts on moving capital denied; US Mil Advisory Group orders evacuation of equipment from Nanking
Dr Tead sets expansion cost at $25-million by '58, rept to Higher Educ Bd; asks more state aid; sets enrollment at 70,110 as of March; cites bd on alleged communism in insts
Mme Chiang arrives, Washington; goes to home of Sec Marshall; illus with Mrs Marshall; Washington reception modest; Amb Dr Koo asks more US aid; denies corrupt use of funds by China officials, s, China Inst of Amer
1948Elizabeth Berg, American nurse and author[†]
Elizabeth Berg is an American novelist.
1948T. Coraghessan Boyle, American novelist and short story writer[†]
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published nineteen novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
1948Patricia Hewitt, Australian-English educator and politician, English Secretary of State for Health[†]
Dame Patricia Hope Hewitt is an Australian-born British government adviser and former politician, who was the Secretary of State for Health from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, she had previously been the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from 2001 to 2005.
1948Toninho Horta, Brazilian guitarist and composer[†]
Antônio Maurício Horta de Melo is a Brazilian jazz guitarist and vocalist.
1948Antonín Panenka, Czech footballer[†]
Antonín Panenka is a Czech former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He spent most of his career at Czechoslovak club Bohemians Prague before having spells with various Austrian clubs including Rapid Wien. Panenka won UEFA Euro 1976 with Czechoslovakia and gained recognition for his winning penalty kick in the shoot-out of the final against West Germany where he scored with a softly-chipped ball up the middle of the goal as the goalkeeper dived away. This style of penalty is now known as a panenka. In 1980, he won Czechoslovak Footballer of the Year and his team finished third at Euro 1980.