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Reid-Preusse dissent from Mgt Survey Com proposal for Transit Authority urges 15¢ basic fare on munic lines
Lt Gen Taylor and Van Fleet tour front
Repub Adm reptdly tentatively agrees an local govts option an ending curbs; move opposed by those seeking decontrol; Adm also wants 2-yr extension on curbs law instead of 1
Juliana, leading mourning, hails Dutch unity; thanks free world for aid, radio s; evacuations and repairs continue; illus; Govt readies plan for meeting $200-500-million flood loss
AFL (B Shishkin) rept asks new round of wage rises to head off depression in '54 or '55; cites need for purchasing power to sustain econ as defense spending eases; repts productivity rise nearly doubled wage rise since '49; G Meany comments; deemphasis on living costs seen
1953Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor[†]
Ciarán Hinds is an Irish actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Hinds is known for a range of screen and stage roles. He has starred in feature films including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Persuasion (1995), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Road to Perdition (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Munich (2005), Amazing Grace (2007), There Will Be Blood (2007), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Silence (2016), First Man (2018) and Belfast (2021), the last of which earned him Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
1953Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary, priest, and martyr (died 1985)[†]
Ezechiele "Lele" Ramin, MCCJ was an Italian Comboni missionary and artist. He was described as a martyr of charity by Pope John Paul II after his murder in Brazil while defending the rights of the farmers and the Suruí natives of the Rondônia area against local landowners. His cause for canonization was opened in 2016, granting him the title "Servant of God".
1953Gabriel Rotello, American journalist and author, founded OutWeek[†]
Douglas Gabriel Rotello is an American musician, writer and filmmaker. He created New York's Downtown Divas revues in the 1980s, was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of OutWeek magazine, became the first openly gay columnist at a major American newspaper, New York Newsday, and authored the book Sexual Ecology. He now makes documentaries for HBO, The History Channel and other networks.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]