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Truman budget message set; amt put at $80 billion, with $11-billion deficit
Sen Lehman holds Sen not continuing body
CSC rept on drop in number of employes, Nov
Chinese gunman kills 2 crewmen of Philippines Air Lines craft on Laoag-Aporri flight (PI) in attempt to divert craft to Communist China; Chinese Nationalist fighters force craft to land on Quemoy Is; 7 aboard craft, including 2 Amers, safe; speculation; Amers identified; map
US House Armed Services Com repts on inspection tour; scores Adm failure to train more SKs; asks use of Nationalist Chinese and other Asians; opposes immediate withdrawal of US forces; sees adequate SK force possible 8-12 mos after delivery of needed equipment
1952Vaughan Jones, New Zealand mathematician and academic (died 2020)[†]
Sir Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones was a New Zealand mathematician known for his work on von Neumann algebras and knot polynomials. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1990.
1952Jean-Pierre Rives, French rugby player, painter, and sculptor[†]
Jean-Pierre Rives is a French former rugby union player and visual artist. "A cult figure in France", according to the BBC, he came to epitomise the team's spirit and "ultra-committed, guts-and-glory style of play". He won 59 caps for France – 34 of them as captain – and was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame. After retiring from the sport, Rives concentrated entirely on his art. He is both a painter and a sculptor, and exhibiting regularly at prominent public venues all over the globe. Rives was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor and the National Order of Merit by the government of France.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]