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November 12, 1949

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1949Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1992)[†]

Ron Lapointe was a Canadian ice hockey coach.

Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)

1949Jack Reed, American soldier and politician[†]

John Francis Reed is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Rhode Island, a seat he was first elected to in 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district from 1991 to 1997. Reed graduated from the United States Military Academy and Harvard University, serving in the U.S. Army as an active officer from 1971 to 1979. He is the dean of Rhode Island's congressional delegation since 1999 upon the death of John Chafee.

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U. S. AIDE ASSERTS VISHINSKY DEFEATS OWN CASE ON ATOM; Hickerson Tells U. N. Devices That Can Level Mountains Also Can Raze Cities

By Thomas J. Hamilton

Hickerson says Vishinsky confirms US view that USSR plan is ineffective, s, UN Special Pol Com; says he ignores or misinterprets majority plan; cites its differences from Baruch plan; stresses inseparability of peaceful and war uses; Argentine resolution asks Big 5 and Canada, draft provisional control by Jan 31; Venezuela proposes UN mediator; Czech and Byelorussian reprs attack majority plan; Yugoslavia backs Haitian resolution

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