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S on defense budget, Seattle
Educ Bd approves ousting 6 teachers who refused to answer San subcom queries; 3 teachers, H I Cammer and Mrs Russell urge delay; Coleman relieved; suspended teacher resigns; Wilson rejects appeals of 7 others
Eisenhower sees no sense in compelling UN and especially US to man front lines; stresses preparing SKs for job; says we do not want Asia to feel white man is his enemy, s, Champaign, Ill
24-hr flash strike halts hundreds of cabs as AFL Auto Workers Union Local 102 demands fleet drivers get comms equal to 50% of amt recorded on meters
some UN delegations 'amazed'; SK Col Limb backs Eisenhower view but holds move at this time 'unthinkable,'
1952Bruce Arians, American football coach[†]
Bruce Charles Arians is an American football executive and former coach in the National Football League (NFL). Since 2022, he has been a senior football consultant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Arians was previously the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals from 2013 to 2017 and the Buccaneers from 2019 to 2021. He was also the interim head coach of the Indianapolis Colts during the 2012 season. Arians is known for his "No risk-it, no biscuit" slogan, which encourages aggressive playcalling.
1952Gary Troup, New Zealand cricketer[†]
Gary Bertram Troup is a New Zealand former cricketer and local politician who played 15 Test matches and 22 One Day Internationals for New Zealand.
1952The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power.[†]
Operation Hurricane was the first test of a British atomic device. A plutonium implosion device was detonated on 3 October 1952 in Main Bay, Trimouille Island, in the Montebello Islands in Western Australia. With the success of Operation Hurricane, the United Kingdom became the third nuclear power, after the United States and the Soviet Union.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]