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J V Bennett, Fed Prison Bur dir, urges com study gang leaders methods of recruiting and enforcing order in mobs; com to go to Missouri for hearings; hears testimony on possibility of prosecuting bookmakers for mail fraud
Amarante convicted for criminal contempt
US offers mil ship if assn gets release from contract and $87,000 refund; assn and Norwegian reprs conf; some Norwegian and US officials comment on case
W Lissner on Central-Amer econ and pol
1950Nancy Allen, American actress[†]
Nancy Allen is an American actress. She came to prominence for her performances in several films directed by Brian De Palma in the 1970s and early 1980s. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award nomination and three Saturn Award nominations.
1950Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish-born English photographer (died 2006)[†]
Robert Carlos Clarke was a British-Irish photographer who made erotic images of women as well as documentary, portrait, and commercial photography.
1950Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (died 2015)[†]
Jan Jerzy Kulczyk was a Polish billionaire businessman. He was the founder and owner of Kulczyk Holding and an international investment house Kulczyk Investments with headquarters in Luxembourg and offices in London and Kyiv, Ukraine. According to Forbes, Kulczyk was the richest Pole at the time of his death.
1950Mercedes Lackey, American author[†]
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey is an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels include interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores.
1950Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.[†]
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap, which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. Under this minoritarian system, white citizens held the highest status, followed by Indians, Coloureds and black Africans, in that order. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day, particularly inequality.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]