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Pres Truman asks Cong to withhold action until next session in Jan
s, Mahoning Valley; jeered and picketed by steel workers; other workers say they will vote for Taft; illus
Sheffield and Borden raise prices, 3d time in 3 mos; exec cites farm price and costs rise
Brit troops illus
1950Antony Gormley, English sculptor and academic[†]
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and Event Horizon, a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City (2010), São Paulo (2012) and Hong Kong (2015–16).
1950Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer and activist[†]
Dana Rosemary Scallon known professionally as Dana, is an Irish singer, songwriter and politician. While still a schoolgirl she won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with "All Kinds of Everything". It became a worldwide million-seller and launched her music career.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]