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Govt bill seeks heavy tax on touring natls
Price rises noted
crash cause unknown; 6 agencies organize inquiries; illus; all but 6 victims identified; CAB repr repts on takeoff weight; CAA repts line exceeded weight limit 15 times; line pres R W Duff repts line has flown 100 million passenger mi without accident; crew pors
1,000 world scholars to write 6-vol scientific and cultural history of mankind costing $600,000 and taking 5 yrs under Unesco auspices; shorter versions planned for univ and popular use; 12, headed by Prof P B Carneiro (Brazil) named to comm; 75 to be corresponding members, 35 to be consultants; World History Journal pub set for Mar under Dr L Febvre (France) as ed; journal aims; Internatl Comm for Scientific & Cultural History of Mankind formed to direct project's orgn; Prof R E Turner (US) to head ed com; work seen as attempt to meet needs of unbiased, universal history; some comm members and Unesco officials illus
1951Bobby Jones, American basketball player[†]
Robert Clyde "Bobby" Jones is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Denver Nuggets in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the Philadelphia 76ers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Secretary of Defense", Jones won an NBA championship with the 76ers in 1983, was a four-time NBA All-Star, a nine-time member of the NBA All-Defensive Team, and was the NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 1983. In 2019, Jones was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]