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6,000 repair men struggle to restore normal service; statistics on damage costs and users without power
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Resigns as NYS Sup Ct Official Referee; asks retirement benefits
subways hit by series of evening rush-hr mishaps; Transport Bd and TWU absolve bus strikers; W Side IRT hit worst, by short-circuit from train's defective contact shoe; Times Sq station sealed off 1 hr; illus; E Side IRT delayed 15 mins by defective local train; mech troubles delay 6th Av and W Side IND trains during morning rush
Japan protests violations over Hokkaido by foreign mil craft (presumably USSR); warns of joint action with US to bar future violations; Gen Clark and Amb Murphy concur; US to study situation; map
1953Silvana Gallardo, American actress and producer (died 2012)[†]
Sandra Silvana Gallardo was an American film and television actress, acting coach, and writer.
1953An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.[†]
Pravda is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million. The newspaper began publication on 5 May 1912 in the Russian Empire but was already extant abroad in January 1911. It emerged as the leading government newspaper of the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1912 and 1991.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]