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Eisenhower arrives, Luxembourg; encouraged
61.3 tops warm spell; freak elec and hail storm hits Westchester
MacArthur visits front; denies enemy can drive UN troops into sea; says UN Command can hold on indefinitely; UN forces in ltd attack, in E where some 30,000 enemy troops reptdly mass for drive toward Taegu; Navy planes blast path for infantry; other units enter Namdae area; find 800 enemy dead; enemy casualties from air strikes seen heavier than believed; patrol enters empty Wonju; reptdly attacked; fighting reptd, Tamyang; UN patrols on E coast push to Kangnung after Navy planes knock out command post; large parts of Chinese 3d and 4th Field Armies reptdly pulled back to Manchuria because of USSR failure to provide air support; some observers believe mauled forces withdrawn for reorgn to area safe from UN air attacks; fighting reptd near Osan, between Kumyangjang and Yoju; map
to serve as Econ Stabilization Admr
Gen Collins says Army will reach 24-div strength by July 1
1951Iván Fischer, Hungarian conductor and composer[†]
Iván Fischer is a Hungarian conductor and composer.
1951Ian Hill, English rock bassist[†]
Ian Frank Hill is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the heavy metal band Judas Priest. Along with lead guitarist Glenn Tipton, he is one of only two members who've appeared on all of the band's studio albums.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]