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PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, by indicating in his State of the Union message last week that he believed a review of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act was in order because it contains injustices and discriminates against some aliens, brought comfort to opponents of the law.
MORE than sixty years have elapsed since the last professional performance of Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" on Broadway. The current production at the City Center gives most of us an opportunity to see it for the first time.
BOSTON, Feb. 7 -- Carl (Bobo) Olson, America's top ranking middleweight, chalked up his eighth straight victory tonight by drubbing Norman Hayes of Boston in a ten-round bout telecast coast to coast from the Garden. Olson, a 5-to-2 favorite, weighed 162 1/2 to Hayes' 160 pounds.
Irvine, J: 3 men pursued by NJ trooper for speeding, held, New Brunswick, for kidnapping him from NYC and stealing $20 and his car
A combination of circumstances is drawing United States wool manufacturers away from the Australian and New Zealand wool markets. Last week, dispatches from Sydney indicated that the chief support of the market was supplied by Great Britain, Europe and Japan. Americans held a poor fourth position from the standpoint of purchases.
1953Mary Steenburgen, American actress[†]
Mary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s, she made her professional acting debut in the Western comedy film Goin' South (1978). Steenburgen went on to earn critical acclaim for her role in Time After Time (1979) and Jonathan Demme's comedy-drama film Melvin and Howard (1980), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]