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Barkley arrives, St Louis; rehearses wedding; illus
B-29 with 20 aboard down off Bermuda on non-stop flight from Calif; map; US and Brit units in biggest peacetime search
Plans to will estate to spur physical med and rehabilitation
W S Churchill attacks conf decisions, reply to Sec Bevin rept to Commons; Bevin has reservations
ROME, Nov. 17 -- Pope Pius XII implicitly supported today the United States arms program for Western Europe as the most effective weapon under present circumstances to preserve peace.
1949Herman Rarebell, German rock drummer and songwriter[†]
Hermann Erbel, known professionally as Herman Rarebell, is a German musician, best known as the drummer for the hard rock band Scorpions from 1977 to 1996, during which time he played on eight studio albums. Aside from playing drums, Rarebell wrote or co-wrote several songs for the group such as "Another Piece of Meat", "Falling in Love" and "Passion Rules the Game". He wrote the lyrics for some of the band's most well known songs such as "Rock You Like a Hurricane", "Blackout", "Make It Real", "Arizona", "Bad Boys Running Wild" and "Tease Me Please Me".
1949The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.[†]
Iva Valley is a locality located in the Nigerian. Ngwo township in Enugu city