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Mins Com meets; votes to invite W Ger and Saar as assoc members; Schuman repts Ger bid for observer rejected; Bevin proposal for liaison com between Mins Com and Consultative Assembly approved
Comr Hilliard dismisses 4 provisional employes, brings dismissal charges against 1 permanent employe and suspends 27 in Bronx office UPWA-led demonstration against dept transfer policy
"The greatest asset that the Kremlin has is the partisan attempt in the Senate to sabotage, the bipartisan foreign policy of the United States," President ...
Nominated Army Dept Sec
Brown pleads guilty to all charges
1950András Adorján, Hungarian chess player and author (died 2023)[†]
András Adorján was a Hungarian Chess Grandmaster (1973) and author. He adopted his mother's maiden name, Adorján, in 1968.
1950Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor[†]
Ed Marinaro is an American actor and former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football for the Cornell Big Red, where he was a unanimous All-American and won the Maxwell Award in 1971.
1950Sandra Morgen, American anthropologist and academic (died 2016)[†]
Sandra Lynn Morgen was an American feminist anthropologist. At the end of her career, she was a professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, and previously served as vice provost for graduate studies and associate dean of the Graduate School, and director of the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society.
1950Robert Natus, Estonian architect (born 1890)[†]
Robert Natus was an Estonian architect of Baltic German descent.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]