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reptd use of drugs to elicit 'confession' from pol prisoner, China, spurs speculation on drug use to get 'confessions' of germ bombings from captured US airmen
he loses to Gen Eisenhower; leads Conv switch which won nomination for Eisenhower
IAM Pres Hayes urges 4 leading candidates repudiate it
ANG to aid strikers
Transport Bd rept to Estimate Bd approves bldg 6 routes with links to existing lines; puts cost at $363.5 million
1952Voja Antonić, Serbian computer scientist and journalist, designed the Galaksija computer[†]
Vojislav "Voja" Antonić is a Serbian inventor, journalist, and writer. He is known for creating a build-it-yourself home computer Galaksija and originating a related "Build your own computer Galaksija" initiative with Dejan Ristanović. This initiative encouraged and enlightened thousands of computer enthusiasts during the 1980s in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Antonić has donated many of his personal creations to the public domain. He was also a magazine editor and contributed to a number of radio shows.
1952Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs[†]
Irina Georgieva Bokova is a Bulgarian politician and a former Director-General of UNESCO (2009–2017). During her political and diplomatic career in Bulgaria, she served, among others, two terms as a member of the National parliament, and deputy minister of foreign affairs and minister of foreign affairs ad interim under Prime Minister Zhan Videnov. She also served as Bulgaria's ambassador to France and to Monaco, and was Bulgaria's Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. Bokova was also the personal representative of Bulgaria's president to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (2005–2009).
1952Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (died 1995)[†]
Philip Taylor Kramer was an American bass guitar player for the rock group Iron Butterfly and associated groups between 1974 and 1980. He later became a computer engineering executive and inventor. He disappeared in February 1995 and was found dead in May 1999.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]