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Comr Paduano outlines improvement program; cites $1.3 million yrly cost for use of utility cos st lamps; new fluted steel lampposts to cut cost
Gov Byrnes assails FEPC
Sec Gen Fahmy says Maher holds talks with GB only normal way to attain aims if parley basis can be found; Cairo press repts Maher pushes efforts to restore order; says Cabinet studies legis; repts police raid Cairo homes, recover loot; repts 86 more persons arrested; police probe crosses marked on doors of foreigners homes, Cairo; Maher seeks to form group representing all parties for talks with GB; 1 bn of Brit Coldstream Guards, 2 RAF jet fighter sqdns arrive, canal zone
several detectives promoted for roles in Livingston jewel theft case
The United Steelworkers of America, C. I O., presented its case yesterday for a guaranteed annual wage of about $3,000 and said this particular phase of its demands would cost the steel industry 6 1/2 to 7 cents an hour.
1952Dave Casper, American football player[†]
David John Casper nicknamed "the Ghost", is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Oakland Raiders. Casper has been inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame (2012) and the Pro Football Hall of Fame (2002).
1952John Cornyn, American lawyer and politician, 49th Attorney General of Texas[†]
John Cornyn III is an American politician, attorney, and former jurist serving as the senior United States senator from Texas, a seat he has held since 2002. A member of the Republican Party, he served on the Texas Supreme Court from 1991 to 1997 and as Texas attorney general from 1999 to 2002.
1952Park Geun-hye, South Korean politician, 11th President of South Korea[†]
Park Geun-hye is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 until her removal from office in 2017. Park was the first and to date only woman to be elected president of South Korea, and also the first woman to be popularly elected as a head of state in East Asia. She is also the first South Korean president to be born after the founding of South Korea. Her father, Park Chung-hee, was president from 1963 to 1979, serving five consecutive terms after he seized power in 1961 and whom she served as first lady under from 1974 until his assassination in 1979.
1952Ralph Merkle, American computer scientist and academic[†]
Ralph C. Merkle is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is one of the inventors of public-key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, and more recently a researcher and speaker on cryonics.
1952Carol Ann Susi, American actress (died 2014)[†]
Carol Ann Susi was an American actress whose career spanned 40 years. Her best known roles were probably her first and last; she debuted as the recurring character of semi-competent but likable intern Monique Marmelstein on Kolchak: The Night Stalker. More than three decades and countless supporting roles later, her level of celebrity was elevated for having provided the voice of recurring off-screen character Mrs. Wolowitz, mother of Howard Wolowitz, on the television series The Big Bang Theory.
1952Callistratus of Georgia, Georgian patriarch (born 1866)[†]
St. Callistratus was Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from June 21, 1932, until his death. His full title was His Holiness and Beatitude, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]