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recessing talks seen as pattern; Communists ignore UN request for exch of POW lists
High Ct of Parliament overrules Sup Ct invalidation of law removing colored voters from electoral roll; 3,198 held, last 2 mos, for breaking apartheid laws; campaign's mass defiance phase due; Opposition leader MP Mitchell warns of success; India disturbed by UN inaction on Assembly Jan resolution
to be replaced as chief USSR repr to UN; comment; career
Acropolis, J: slain, Yonkers; role in wrangles while AFL and Westchester County Labor Fed exec revd
Gov Stevenson bars intervention; P Murray, other CIO leaders to urge he ask Harriman reconsider; A Rose, D Dubinsky conf with Gov's aide W W Wyatt; Cashmore confident; int on labor stand; CIO officials conf with Fitzpatrick; UAW dir C H Kerrigan, other Wagner backers stress Cashmore can't be elected; Crotty hdqrs open; ADA opposes Cashmore
1952Jacques Chagnon, Canadian educator and politician[†]
Jacques Chagnon is a retired Canadian politician who served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 2018. A member of Quebec Liberal Party, he was appointed Minister of Education in 1994, when his party went back on to form government in 2003, he was appointed Minister of Public Security until 2005.
1952Rita Dove, American poet and essayist[†]
Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020, she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing.
1952Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman[†]
Wendelin Wiedeking is the former president and chief executive officer of the German car manufacturer, Porsche AG, a post he held from 1993 through July 23, 2009. He was also speaker of the company's executive committee and was a member of the supervisory board of Volkswagen AG from 2006 to 2009.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]