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Talks between Iran and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company broke down yesterday when Iran rejected the company's proposal as not in accord with the nationalization law. The British Cabinet will seek new ways to avoid losing the valuable oil property. [1:8.]
US Defense Dept repts small deliveries from US excess stocks; repts decision pends on Popovic request on aid under Mutual Defense Program
Iran rejects Brit offer; talks break down; terms of offer; Grady again urges moderation on Mossadegh Attlee to call Cabinet meeting; Iranian delegate to ILO A Daftary says Iran seeks no violence
Sen votes ban on price rollbacks
Fed conv
1951Tress MacNeille, American voice actress[†]
Teressa Claire "Tress" MacNeille is an American voice actress, she is best known for voicing Dot Warner on the animated television series Animaniacs and its revival, Babs Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures, Chip and Gadget Hackwrench on Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Anastasia Tremaine in various Cinderella media since 1994, Daisy Duck in various Disney media since 1999, and Merryweather in Sleeping Beauty media since 2006. She has also worked on animated series such as The Simpsons, Futurama, Disenchantment, Rugrats, and Hey Arnold!
1951Sheila McLean, Scottish scholar and academic[†]
Sheila Ann Manson McLean is International Bar Association Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine and director of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow. McLean was the Book Reviewers' Editor for Medical Law International.
1951Paul Muldoon, Irish poet and academic[†]
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he has been both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004 and has also served as president of the Poetry Society (UK) and poetry editor at The New Yorker.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]