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Moving forward in the face of normally "bad" news in both domestic and foreign fields, financial markets continued the recovery movement last week with stocks closing higher for the third consecutive week.
heavy industries uptrend
The British crisis and the compromise represented in the new intra-European payments agreement indicate that little real headway is being made in the cure of fundamental causes of world commerce ills, according to views in foreign trade circles here last week.
C L Sulzberger on Danish and Norwegian concern over delay
1949Anna CzerwiĆska, Polish mountaineer and author (died 2023)[â ]
Anna CzerwiĆska was a Polish climber. She is known for being the then-oldest woman to summit Mount Everest, doing so at the age of 50. She also published several books about mountaineering.
1949Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster[â ]
Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar, is a former captain of the Indian national cricket team who represented India and Mumbai from 1971 to 1987. He was the first batsman to pass 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time.
1949Greg Kihn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)[â ]
Gregory Stanley Kihn was an American rock musician, radio personality, and novelist. He founded and led the Greg Kihn Band and he wrote several popular horror novels. He is best known for the hits "The Breakup Song " in 1981 and "Jeopardy" in 1983.