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This picture, the President said, was not complete. For one thing, his budget did not include "funds for providing military supplies" to other countries in the North Atlantic pact -- funds now estimated at $1.2 billion. For another thing, it did not take into account his request for $4 billion in new taxes.
With Ralph Beard, Alex Groza, Wallace Jones and Cliff Barker of Kentucky's great team contributing forty of their side's points, the East beat the West, 65 -- 64, in the fourth annual college all-star basketball game at Madison Square Garden last night.
1949Lyle Alzado, American football player and actor (died 1992)[†]
Lyle Martin Alzado was an American professional football player who was a defensive end of the National Football League (NFL), famous for his intense and intimidating style of play.
1949A. C. Grayling, English philosopher and academic[†]
Anthony Clifford Grayling is a British philosopher and author. He was born in Northern Rhodesia and spent most of his childhood there and in Nyasaland. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where he formerly taught.
1949Richard Thompson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Richard Thompson is an English songwriter, musician, singer and record producer.