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Western Allies announce accord on financial contribution of 850 million marks a month until July '53; talks on security controls continue; Prof Hallstein repts controls are no curb on eventual output expansion; Govt circles jubilant over Nato conf results; financial contribution seen below amt sought by Ger
Sears, Roebuck & Co: ex-employe J Aulicino held for stealing $1,000 in mdse and taking coupon books worth $12,000 from Bklyn store; kin held
Western Big-3 and Council approval of Ger role in army held big step toward fed
Churchill in Commons says his pledge that Brit reaction to breach of truce would be 'prompt, resolute and effective' was merely voicing in pub secret pledge made to US by ex-Prime Min Attlee and ex-Foreign Min Morrison during life of Labor Govt; denies shifting policy; scores censure move; Opposition stunned; Commons, 318-285, defeats censure move
Coronation Stone restored, Westminster Abbey; illus; Scottish MPs raise furor, Commons
1952Dwight Jones, American basketball player (died 2016)[†]
Dwight Elmo Jones was an American professional basketball player. A 6'10" forward/center, he was the leading scorer and rebounder on the 1972 Olympic team that lost the controversial gold medal game to the Soviet Union. Jones was ejected from the gold medal game after an altercation with a Soviet player. Later it was revealed that the Soviets intentionally provoked him as they saw him as the leader of the U.S. team and wanted to get him out.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]