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Adm '53-54 fiscal program counts on approval of NYS Const amendment allowing rise
5 dead; main rds blocked
steel slump seen; some hold it may reflect speculative operations in anticipation of common market; Authority may find it timely
Dulles, Humphrey, McKay, Dodge, Clay, Jackson and Hughes board cruiser off Wake Is; Radford and Wilson fly to Pearl Harbor for conf with Bradley
Asian Communist leaders reptdly plan to set up Cominform-like orgn, Peiping, to coordinate activities
1952Steve Atkinson, English-Hong Kong cricketer[†]
Stephen Robert Atkinson is an English-born former cricketer who represented both the Netherlands and Hong Kong in international cricket.
1952Khaw Boon Wan, Malayan-Singaporean politician, Singaporean Minister of Health[†]
Khaw Boon Wan is a Malaysian-born Singaporean former politician who served as Minister for Transport between 2015 and 2020, Minister for National Development between 2011 and 2015, and Minister for Health between 2003 and 2011. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP), as part of a PAP team, representing the Moulmein division of Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) between 2001 and 2006, and the Sembawang division of Sembawang GRC between 2006 and 2020.
1952Charles Lightoller, English sailor (born 1874)[†]
Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller, was a British mariner and naval officer who was the second officer on board the RMS Titanic. During the ship's sinking, and as the officer in charge of loading passengers into lifeboats on the port side, Lightoller strictly enforced the women and children only protocol, not allowing any male passengers to board the lifeboats unless they were needed as auxiliary seamen. He was the most senior officer to survive the disaster. Lightoller served as a commanding officer in the Royal Navy during World War I and he was twice decorated for gallantry. During World War II, in retirement, he voluntarily provided his personal yacht, the Sundowner, and sailed her as one of the "little ships" in the Dunkirk evacuation.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]