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LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 25--Sir Benegal N. Rau of India said today that the reported lull in the Korean fighting "may not be without significance" and urged that advantage be taken of it to start preliminary peace talks.
Exec Dir French repts CARE will distribute free of charge $35 million in CCC stocks outside Yugoslav rationing system as complement to US aid; lists priorities; will appt advisory council; all forms of US aid will exceed, $110 million; Pres Truman issues exec order for Govt program adm
removes 45 able-bodied men from Fire Prevention & Combustibles Div to active duty; replacements to be partly disabled men; hints irregularities; to seek 500 more men far uniformed force; comments; UFA pub dir repts on UFA meeting which voiced confidence in Purcell; resolution urges Monaghan to rescind Purcell suspension; another resolution asks $5,800-yr minimum salary for firemen; UFA members seem displeased with Crane
Statement on aggressor nations; text
4 retire; no link to probe
1951David Briggs, Australian guitarist, songwriter, and producer[†]
David John Briggs AM is an Australian musician, songwriter and record producer, best known as lead guitarist in the rock band Little River Band between 1976 and 1981, having joined the band when original lead guitarist Ric Formosa left.
1951Andy Hummel, American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2010)[†]
John Andrew Hummel was an American bassist and singer-songwriter best known as the bass player of Big Star.
1951Anne Mills, English economist and academic[†]
Dame Anne Jane Mills is a British authority on health economics. She is deputy director and Provost and Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]