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Lt Gen Wedemeyer says he backs Taft policy because it puts US interest first, lr to F E Schluter
emergency water supply line built into safe Council Bluffs areas; Omaha dist engineer sets deadline for emergency levee raising; downstream Mo-Kan area situation worsens; gas pipeline, Rulo, Neb, washed out; emergency declared, Fargo, ND, as Red River nears crest; map
S Cafiero and M Meyers seized, NYC; charged with bilking Tokyo export-import co Toho Bussan Aisha of $780,000 deposited in US for newsprint purchase; total amt involved may reach $3 million; accused deny guilt
Ohio and NJ strikes settled on Mich pattern; service restoration depends on WE pickets; NJ pact omits union shop; 3,000 New Orleans workers walk out over local grievance; some Bell cos seek injunctions against WE pickets; Chesapeake & Potomac invokes Taft-Hartley Act; long-distance operators in 7 cities respect picket lines
250,000-300,000 stage organized protest, Belgrade; biggest in Yugoslavia since World War II
1952Kym Gyngell, Australian actor, comedian, and screenwriter[†]
Kim Gyngell, sometimes also credited as Kym Gyngell, is an Australian comedian and film, television and stage actor. Gyngell won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1988 for his role as Ian McKenzie in Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
1952Brian Muir, English sculptor and set designer[†]
Brian Ian Muir is a British sculptor who most famously created Darth Vader's helmet and armour using Ralph McQuarrie's design.
1952Avital Ronell, Czech-American philosopher and academic[†]
Avital Ronell is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic languages and literature and comparative literature at New York University, where she co-directs the trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies program. As Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy, Ronell also teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.
1952Glenn Shadix, American actor, (died 2010)[†]
William Glenn Shadix was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for his roles as Otho Fenlock in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
1952First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.[†]
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range subsonic jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since 1955 and was flown by NASA from 1959 to 2007. The bomber can carry up to 70,000 pounds (32,000 kg) of weapons and has a typical combat range of around 8,800 miles (14,200 km) without aerial refueling.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]