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G A Timone calls Union Communist-controlled; cites membership of 8 teachers ousted, '51, and 8 awaiting trial for refusing to answer queries on alleged party ties
F-86s battle 150 MIGs, down 7, damage 12; stepped-up MIG action seen attempt to discourage UN attacks; UN claims 29 MIGs downed, 6 days; F-84s hit NK mil acad near Sakchu
Dem State Conv goes through motions of placing Stevenson-Sparkman names on Natl Dem Party ticket for US Pres and VP; explores possibility of forming Tex Dem Party to run Eisenhower-Nixon ticket
Gen Eisenhower appears on same platforms as Jenner, Indianapolis; urges election of all Repub Cong candidates, implying endorsement of Jenner
AEC and Defense Dept rept Clarkson plans tests soon; only US officials to attend
1952Medea Benjamin, American activist, founder of Code Pink[†]
Medea Benjamin is an American political activist who, along with Jodie Evans and others, co-founded Code Pink. She also co-founded, along with her then husband Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Benjamin was the Green Party nominee in the 2000 United States Senate election in California, running under the name Medea Susan Benjamin. She finished in third place with 326,828 votes (3.1%).
1952Vic Toews, Paraguayan-Canadian lawyer and politician, 48th Canadian Minister of Justice[†]
Victor Toews is a Canadian politician and jurist. Toews is a justice of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba. He represented Provencher in the House of Commons of Canada from 2000 until his resignation on July 9, 2013, and served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, most recently as Minister of Public Safety. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon. Prior to his appointment to the judiciary, Toews was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
1952Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese engineer and architect, designed the Beirut City Hall (born 1866)[†]
Youssef Aftimus was a Lebanese civil engineer and architect who specialized in Moorish Revival architecture. Aftimus was the leading Lebanese architect and urban planner during the first half of the twentieth century, he is the author of many of Beirut's well known landmarks such as the Beirut Municipality Building, the Grand Serail's Hamidiyyeh clock tower, the Hamidiyyeh Fountain and the Barakat Building. Aftimus was also an urban planner, and politician and philanthropist.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]