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Peakes pleads insanity; psychiatric rept calls him psychotic; re-committed to hosp; Judge Streit comments
OPS raises lean pork retail prices 1-8¢ a lb to comply with Defense Production Act amendment on farm price ratio; raises slaughter and wholesale prices $1.20 a cwt for sales to eating places; sees cutback when parity price is lowered
WSB Chmn Feinsinger repts Alcoa-USWA dispute settled; workers to get pay rise, other benefits; WSB approves Kaiser contract
Peiping radio sees US naval maneuvers as 'provocation'; Communist staff officers agree to name Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czech as neutrals
Admr Fowler sees more lay-offs
1952Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, English businessman and politician[†]
Norman Roy Blackwell, Baron Blackwell is a British former businessman, civil servant, Conservative politician, campaigner and policy advisor.
1952Joe Johnson, English snooker player and sportscaster[†]
Joe Johnson is an English former professional snooker player and a snooker commentator for Eurosport. As an amateur, he became the British under-19 champion in 1971, defeating Tony Knowles in the final. After reaching the finals of both the English Amateur Championship and the World Amateur Championship in 1978, Johnson turned professional the following year. He reached his first ranking final at the 1983 Professional Players Tournament, where he finished runner-up to Knowles, and he progressed to the semi-finals of the 1985 Classic.
1952Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Greek politician[†]
Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou is a Greek politician and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the New Democracy from 2004 to 2009, . As a member of the European Parliament Mrs Panayotopoulos was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions. She had a seat in its Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and had a substitute seat for the Committee on Legal Affairs.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]