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mount; total in city put at 200,000; 2 new camps opened
convicted of improper use of secret data; reprimanded and suspended from command for 6 mos
Mossadegh gets unanimous confidence vote, Parliament; M Damavandi demands ouster of US mil advisers; says Iran gets no benefit from US; assails Point 4; demands USSR caviar concession, Caspian Sea, be ended; sees USSR espionage; Iranian newsmen rept anti-US sentiment in Parliament; Fadayan leader S Q Abadi assails S Q Abadi assails US aides; Henderson and US mil mission chief Maj Gen Zimmerman see Mossadegh; Zimmerman reptdly pledges aid; Henderson denies discussing anti-US-incidents
old Bd disbands; Feinsinger again defends record, lr to Truman; CIO role in new Bd seen
holds saucers are natural phenomena, no menace to US
1952Stephen Blackmore, English botanist and author[†]
Stephen Blackmore CBE FRSE FRSB FLS is a British botanist, who was educated at St. George's School, Hong Kong and the University of Reading where he completed his PhD in 1976 on the "Palynology and Systematics of the Cichorieae". He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1976. He then worked at the Royal Society of London’s Research Station on Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean before being appointed Lecturer in Biology and Head of the National Herbarium and Botanic Garden at the University of Malawi. In 1980, he was appointed Head of Palynology at Natural History Museum in London and from 1990 to 1999 served there as Keeper of Botany. In 1985 he organized, together with Keith Ferguson, the Linnean Society symposium "Pollen and Spores: Form and Function" and in 1990, together with Susan Barnes, "Pollen and Spores: Patterns of Diversification". He was the 15th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1999 until 20 December 2013, and was appointed His Majesty's Botanist in Scotland in 2010.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]