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Sec Johnson hails productive capacity as defense 'rampart'
activities; wife and daughter leave
com approves Australian proposal for permanent control under UN Trusteeship Council, 35-13; US and GB lead opposition against Arab, USSR and Latin Amer blocs; vote surprising; seen assuring Assembly passage; Sweden and Holland withdraw proposal; Swedish repr scores vote
Transportation Bd rejects pay rise and shorter wk; warns on slowdown, lr to Guinan; says $70 million needed to meet demands is unavailable; O'Dwyer approves; Quill in London, says he authorized slowdown
Lewis repts UMW signs with more small cos; J D Battle denies well-established, cos are included; UMW refuses to lift 3-day wk in anthracite; G H Love asks Cong action on Lewis 'monopoly,'
1949Mary Gordon, American author, critic, and academic[†]
Mary Catherine Gordon is an American writer from Queens and Valley Stream, New York. She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism. In 2008, she was named Official State Author of New York.
1949Nancy Meyers, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Nancy Jane Meyers is an American filmmaker. She has written, produced, and directed many critically and commercially successful films. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Private Benjamin (1980). Her film Baby Boom (1987) was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. She co-wrote Father of the Bride (1991), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), and both wrote and directed The Parent Trap (1998), What Women Want (2000), Something's Gotta Give (2003), The Holiday (2006), It's Complicated (2009), and The Intern (2015).
1949Robert Sternberg, American psychologist and academic[†]
Robert J. Sternberg is an American psychologist and psychometrician. He is a professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Sternberg received his BA from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University under advisor Gordon Bower. He is a distinguished associate of the Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge.