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Inflation and internatl situation raise spending and bookings prospects
The roots of the MacArthur debate run deep. The controversy ranges over the entire conduct of America's Far Eastern policy since World War II. Its bitterness has mounted rapidly in the ten months since the outbreak, in Korea, of actual warfare in the Far East.
41 held, Jackson, for alleged conspiracy to obstruct justice in Gov Wright hearing on McGee petition; Wright reserves decision on defense plea to set aside execution; defense charges conviction violated civil rights; 41 freed on condition they leave state
Out of the mass of testimony--well in excess of 100,000 words by late yesterday--there emerged seven great issues between General MacArthur and the Administration. General MacArthur threw down the challenge on those issues; the line of questioning ...
1951Samuel Doe, Liberian sergeant and politician, 21st President of Liberia (died 1990)[†]
Samuel Kanyon Doe was a Liberian politician and military officer who served as the 21st President of Liberia from 1986 to 1990. He ruled Liberia as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council (PRC) from 1980 to 1986 and then as president from 1986 to 1990.
1951Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (born 1869)[†]
Élie Joseph Cartan was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems, and differential geometry. He also made significant contributions to general relativity and indirectly to quantum mechanics. Cartan's derivations in algebra have recently been instrumental in the development of heterotic string theory, a key candidate for the Theory of Everything. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]