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Taft election sure as he announces Bridges and Knowland retire from contest; Knowland to be Policy Com chmn, Bridges Pres Pro Tem; no early Eisenhower backer to have top post; Millikin to stay as chmn of Repub Sen orgn; Taft undecided on Labor chmnship
Florio changes plea to guilty; sentenced to 18 mos and put on probation for 5 yrs; to surrender Jan 3; delay granted to permit testimony before Crime Comm; Judge Kaufman scores record
visits Pres-elect Eisenhower; silent on apptmt possibility
revokes mgr A Ercole license after he refuses to testify at NYS Crime Comm hearing
New Brunswick County Ct dismisses 84 manslaughter indictments as too costly to County
1952Jenny Agutter, English actress[†]
Jennifer Ann Agutter is an English actress. She began her career as a child actress in 1964, appearing in East of Sudan, Star!, and two adaptations of The Railway Children: the BBC's 1968 television serial and the 1970 film version. In 1971 she also starred in the critically acclaimed film Walkabout and the TV film The Snow Goose, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama.
1952A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington, killing 87 of the 115 people on board.[†]
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its origins to 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established by transfer of personnel from the Army Air Forces with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947. It is the second youngest branch of the United States Armed Forces and the fourth in order of precedence. The United States Air Force articulates its core missions as air supremacy, global integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, rapid global mobility, global strike, and command and control.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]