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fail; Comr Masciarelli repts shortage not acute; strikers seek to halt deliveries by ind cos, Elizabeth, NJ; no shortage reptd, Newark
DiSalle sees prices rising up to 7% above current levels without rollbacks; Johnston to lead intensive campaign to arouse pub
trial ends; Oatis apologizes for actions; defense counsel asks leniency; US State Dept spokesman L White scores trial as 'hoax'; Amer Newspaper Guild pres H Martin delivers protest to Czech Embassy, Wash; ASNE pres A F Jones assails trial
enemy radio still silent on preliminary meeting proposal; Peiping radio continues citing Communist ed on peace aims
TEHERAN, Iran, July 3--The British management of the AngloIranian Oil Company has decided to transfer all field operations to the Iranians and to withdraw all British personnel from the fields to Abadan for possible evacuation to Britain.
1951John Alexander, Australian tennis player and politician[†]
John Gilbert Alexander, nicknamed JA, is an Australian former professional tennis player, sports broadcaster, and federal politician.
1951Ralph Johnson, American R&B drummer and percussionist[†]
Ralph Randolph Johnson is an American singer, songwriter, musician and producer. Johnson is a member and percussionist of the funk/soul/disco band Earth, Wind & Fire.
1951Vladimir Tismăneanu, Romanian-American political scientist, sociologist, and academic[†]
Vladimir Tismăneanu is a Romanian American political scientist, political analyst, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A specialist in political systems and comparative politics, he is director of the University of Maryland's Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, having served as chairman of the editorial committee (2004–2008) and editor (1998–2004) of the East European Politics and Societies academic review. Over the years, Tismăneanu has been a contributor to several periodicals, including Studia Politica, Journal of Democracy, Sfera Politicii, Revista 22, Evenimentul Zilei, Idei în Dialog and Cotidianul. He has also worked with the international radio stations Radio Free Europe and Deutsche Welle, and authored programs for the Romanian Television Company. As of 2009, he is Academic Council Chairman of the Institute for People's Studies, a think tank of the Romanian Democratic Liberal Party. Between February 2010 and May 2012, he was also President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania.
1951Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American lawyer and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland[†]
Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend is an American attorney who served as the sixth lieutenant governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She was the first woman to serve in that role. A member of the Democratic Party, she ran unsuccessfully for governor of Maryland in 2002.
1951Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.[†]
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, known from 1948 to 1960 as the Czechoslovak Republic, Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, or simply Czechoslovakia, was the Czechoslovak state from 1948 until 1989, when the country was under communist rule, and was regarded as a satellite state in the Soviet sphere of interest.
1951William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.[†]
William Bradford Shockley was an American solid-state physicist and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]