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session; Peiping radio demands UN stop 'bargaining' with lives of POWs and accept Communist plan; warns on interpreting Communist moves to reach truce as sign of weakness; insists on return of all POWs
Impellitteri submits plan to Dir Beame to gradually implement plan
CONVENTION BUILDING in Chicago, Friday, July 11 -- An uproarious forty-six-minute ovation for General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, and one of only lightly less exuberance for Senator Robert A. Taft, marked the quadrennial enactment of the greatest spectacle in American politics, the nomination of aspirants to the highest office in the land.
8,500 Toledo plant workers to be furloughed because of steel lack
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1952Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
William Charles Barber is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played twelve seasons for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). As part of the famed LCB line, Barber helped lead the Flyers to the franchise's two Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990. He is currently a scouting consultant with the Flyers.
1952Stephen Lang, American actor and playwright[†]
Stephen Lang is an American stage and screen actor. He gained fame for his role as main antagonist Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron's Avatar (2009), for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lang reprised the role in the sequels.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]