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Lovett warns cut would shrink effort below minimun safety level; subcom explains planned expenditures; says original $71-billion estimate was pared to $52 billion
Asked to head investigators probing Fed corruption; undecided
most 3d Av 'El' service to halt during nights, Sundays and holidays, Mar 14, as result of passenger traffic drop; new schedules
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M J Quill foresees liquidation
1952Daniel Balavoine, French singer-songwriter and producer (died 1986)[†]
Daniel Xavier-Marie Balavoine was a French singer and songwriter. He was popular in the French-speaking world in the early 1980s; he inspired many singers of his generation such as Jean-Jacques Goldman, Michel Berger, who was his closest friend, as well as the Japanese pop-rock group Crystal King. Balavoine was a part of the original cast of the rock opera Starmania in 1978, which was written by Berger.
1952Vladimir Moskovkin, Ukrainian-Russian geographer, economist, and academic[†]
Vladimir Mikhailovich Moskovkin is a Post-Soviet and Ukrainian geographer, economist, scientometrist, teacher, publicist. Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor.
1952Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (born 1877)[†]
Adela Verne was a distinguished English pianist of German descent, born in Southampton. She was considered the greatest woman pianist of her era, ranked alongside the male keyboard giants of the time. She toured with great success in many parts of the world. She composed a Military March dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother; her sister Mathilde's pupil.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]