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reptd down 100 mi N of Pittsburgh; search; CAA repr says craft may have landed in Lake Ontario; passenger repts craft delayed for repairs, Miami; passenger list; Repr Fulton calls search haphazard; map; pors
Acheson gets Jewish War Veterans Gold Medal of Merit; revs US foreign policy moves, '51
foreign mins of France, Italy, W Ger and Benelux propose their Govts form single parliament to adm proposed Eur army and Schuman plan; hope plan will be effective by '55 after transitional steps; move held vast step toward fed
Sec Sawyer repts US pub saved almost $19 billion, '51; current annual rate put at $22 billion
Churchill departure postponed 24 hrs; Eden, US Amb Gifford, Lords Ismay and Cherwell aboard ship; illus
1951Kenny Roberts, American motorcycle racer[†]
Kenneth Leroy Roberts is an American former professional motorcycle racer and racing team owner. In 1978, he became the first American to win a Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship. He was also a two-time winner of the A.M.A. Grand National Championship. Roberts is one of only four riders in American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) racing history to win the AMA Grand Slam, representing Grand National wins at a mile, half-mile, short-track, TT Steeplechase and road race events.
1951Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri, Indian Muslim scholar (born 1868)[†]
Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri (1868-1951) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar. He was a disciple of Ashraf Ali Thanwi in the Chishti order of Sufism.
1951Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]