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Arms shipments from this country to its European associates under the North Atlantic Treaty may start about March 1 following the signing of bilateral agreements yesterday by eight nations that had requested such assistance.
fox runs through downtown Washington; captured on lawn of Treas Bldg; illus
USAF C-54 with 44 aboard missing, Yukon, on Anchorage-Gt Falls, Mont, flight; Col Balchen heads search; crew list; map
over 300 trucks remain stalled on either side of border, Helmstedt; traffic reptd moving at rate of 1 1/2-miles an hr; E Ger Govt orders special passes for travel from Western zones to Berlin; Western officials study blockade
Vandenberg resigns; Bricker succeeds
1950Barbi Benton, American actress, singer and model[†]
Barbi Benton is an American former model, actress, television personality, and singer. She appeared in Playboy magazine, as a regular on the comedy series Hee Haw, and recorded several moderately successful albums in the 1970s. After the birth of her first child in 1986, Benton retired from show business.
1950Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini king[†]
Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa is the ruler of Bahrain since 1999. A member of the ruling Al Khalifa dynasty, he has reigned as King of Bahrain since 2002, after previously reigning as emir.
1950David C. Hilmers, American colonel, physician, and astronaut[†]
David Carl Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut who flew four Space Shuttle missions. He was born in Clinton, Iowa, but considers DeWitt, Iowa, to be his hometown. He has two grown sons. His recreational interests include playing the piano, gardening, electronics, spending time with his family, and all types of sports. His parents are deceased. With five academic degrees, he is the second most formally educated U.S. astronaut, behind Story Musgrave and Lee Morin with six.
1950Naila Kabeer, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic[†]
Naila Kabeer is an Indian-born British Bangladeshi social economist, research fellow, writer and professor at the London School of Economics. She was also president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2018 to 2019. She is on the editorial committee of journals such as Feminist Economist, Development and Change, Gender and Development, Third World Quarterly and the Canadian Journal of Development Studies. She works primarily on poverty, gender and social policy issues. Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection, focused on South and South East Asia.
1950Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1883)[†]
Nikolai Nikolayevich Luzin was a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. He was the eponym of Luzitania, a loose group of young Moscow mathematicians of the first half of the 1920s. They adopted his set-theoretic orientation, and went on to apply it in other areas of mathematics.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]