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FMCS fails to arrange conf; Curran says unions will bargain on acceptable offer; neither side terms stoppage a strike; progress reptd in ARA-Pacific Assn talks; ships held in NYC noted; NMU outlines unions policy on defense cargoes; will let NSA designate essential ships
E and W Ger agree to resume talks on inter-zonal trade pact
natl and NYC officials admit inadequacy of facilities to check addiction and rehabilitate victims, Legion conf; Anslinger and others offer domestic program; he blames Communist China for US heroin supplies; Murphy asks more data on addiction incidence; other recommendations; Dist Atty McDonald asks narcotics hosp, NYC, as pilot project; Repr Donovan, Asst Atty Gen Blatt and Jansen comment
Prof Fordrung suspended from Hunter Coll for allegedly sensational approach
UN repulses 2 enemy night counterattacks E of Kumhwa; patrols rept stiffened resistance along most of front; continue gains N of Yanggu and Inje; fighting reptd on rd NW of Yonchon; no contact in Korangpo area
1951Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (died 2022)[†]
Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022. He is best known for being one of the main orchestrators of the September 11 attacks.
1951Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist[†]
Francesco Moser, nicknamed "Lo sceriffo", is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. He finished on the podium of the Giro d'Italia six times including his win in the 1984 edition.
1951Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (born 1884)[†]
Angelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. His themes include Greek history, religious symbolism as well as universal harmony in poems such as The Moonstruck, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance. His plays include Sibylla, Daedalus in Crete, Christ in Rome, The Death of Digenis, The Dithyramb of the Rose and Asklepius. Although occasionally his grandiloquence blunts the poetic effect of his work, some of Sikelianos finer lyrics are among the best in Western literature. Every year from 1946 to 1951, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]