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Dist Atty Hogan estimates S T Sollazzo bet $8-10,000 a day on various sports
USSR willing to seek accord, reply; holds GB engages in recriminations; charges GB with many pact violations
UN drive on central front slowed; may have reached main enemy lines; 8th Army repts 10-15,000 enemy troops concentrated 18 mi NW of Hoengsong; fighting reptd 8 mi SE of Hoengsong; KSs gain, SE of Pyongchang; duel across Han continues; 2 enemy tanks knocked out; 3d probably destroyed; enemy reptd concentrating along Yangpyong-Hongchon rd; UN forces seize Pangnim; fighting reptd near Hail, Unhang and E of Chipyong; Canadians battle Chinese tunnelled into mt sides; gain 2 hills; US forces capture Yongdu; map
Carroll refuses to testify on grounds that TV use at hearings invades his const right of privacy; Kefauver threatens with contempt; defends TV use; Carroll lawyer will accept contempt challenge as test of TV use
Dewey denounces Wherry resolution as 'isolationism,' hearings; opposes limits; cites precedents for pres right to send troops without prior Cong consent
1951Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter and coach[†]
Donald O'Riley Quarrie CD is a Jamaican former track and field athlete, one of the world's top sprinters during the 1970s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics he was the gold medallist in the Olympic 200 meters and silver medallist in the Olympic 100 meters. In all, he competed in five Olympic Games and won four Olympic medals during his career.
1951The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.[†]
The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas first held in 1951. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of the Americas, every four years, the year before Summer Olympics. It is the second-oldest continental games in the world. The only Winter Pan American Games were held in 1990. In 2021, the Junior Pan American Games was held for the first time specifically for young athletes. The Pan American Sports Organization is the governing body of the Pan American Games movement, whose structure and actions are defined by the Olympic Charter.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]