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Impellitteri urges 'suggestion' program, alloting $10,000 for awards and $10,000 for program adm; asks apptmt of suggestion award bd
CAB opens probe; repr E E Slattery Jr repts pilot 'apparently' did not follow Idlewild tower orders
plan of action for select group to defy rules revealed at non-whites meetings; Johannesburg meeting described; African Natl Cong to analyze repts on meetings and set date for start of 'disobedience campaign'; 3 orgns picket S African consulate, NYC
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R J Kleberg on destructive effects of Govt controls
1952David Baulcombe, English geneticist and academic[†]
Sir David Charles Baulcombe is a British plant scientist and geneticist. As of October 2024 he was Head of Group, Gene Expression, in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and the Edward Penley Abraham Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany Emeritus at Cambridge. He held the Regius botany chair in that department from 2007 to 2020..
1952Jane Frederick, American hurdler and heptathlete[†]
Jane Wardell Frederick is a former heptathlete from the United States. She set the first official world record in the women's heptathlon, gaining a total number of 6104 points on April 24, 1981, at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, California. Frederick captured the bronze medal at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, finishing behind teammate Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1952Gilles Valiquette, Canadian actor, singer, and producer[†]
Gilles Valiquette is a Canadian rock musician, stage actor and record producer.
1952Dennis Hayden, American actor[†]
Dennis Hayden is an American actor, producer and writer, most famous for his role as Eddie, one of the main terrorists in the popular 1988 action film Die Hard.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]