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Mayor-elect Impellitteri indicated yesterday that he intended to go slow in accepting or rejecting tentative peace feelers that have reached him from the Democratic party chieftains who supported Ferdinand Pecora for the Mayoralty.
Western Big 3 reject Ger bid to mfr
Amer Engineering Educ Soc survey foresees acute shortages of engineers, US; cites drop in school regis; puts need at 30,000 more a yr; offers plan
State Joint Com to Study Alcoholic Beverage Laws drafts 24 principles for more uniform state regulation; repts on 2-yr study
Harvard unit head bars Army 'comic books' designed to spur enrollment
1950Gilbert Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Gilbert Perreault is a Canadian former professional ice hockey center who played for 17 seasons with the National Hockey League's Buffalo Sabres. He was the first draft pick of the Sabres in their inaugural season in the NHL. He is well known as the centre man for the prolific trio of Sabres forwards known as The French Connection. The trio helped the Sabres reach the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals.
1950General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.[†]
Carlos Román Delgado Chalbaud was a Venezuelan military officer who served as president of Venezuela from 1948 to 1950 as leader of a military junta. In 1945, he was one of the high-ranking officers who brought to power the Democratic Action party through a coup d'état. In 1948, as a Minister of Defense, he led another military coup and ruled as President until his assassination in Caracas.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]