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B Smith of Pub Adm Inst issues supplement to Oct '52 rept for Mgt Survey Com; Dr Gulick comments
formally nominated as CIA Dir
Sen Wiley says Dulles warns Eurs again on ratification, rept on Dulles testimony before Sen com; says Dulles holds tour showed importance Amers attach to EDC
The familiar huffing of towboats returned to the waters of this port at nightfall yesterday as the ten-day strike of harbor workers came to an end. The snub-nosed little craft moved out from lay-up points all over the port to work throughout the night breaking the log jam of waiting ships.
Gen Trujillo says his country would consider sending troops; says he has not been asked
1953Philip Anglim, American actor[†]
Philip Anglim is an American actor. He is best known for his performance as John Merrick in the stage and television versions of The Elephant Man, a role for which he received a Best Actor nomination in the 1979 Tony Awards. Other notable roles include the title role in Macbeth on Broadway and Dane O'Neill, the ill-fated love child who grew up to follow in his unknown father's footsteps on the path to the priesthood in the television mini-series The Thorn Birds. He also had a recurring guest role as the Bajoran priest Vedek Bareil on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
1953Jeb Bush, American banker and politician, 43rd Governor of Florida[†]
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party and of the Bush family, he was an unsuccessful candidate for president of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries.
1953Tom Veryzer, American baseball player (died 2014)[†]
Thomas Martin Veryzer was an American baseball shortstop. He played 12 years in Major League Baseball, appearing in 979 games for the Detroit Tigers (1973–1977), Cleveland Indians (1978–1981), New York Mets (1982), and Chicago Cubs (1983–1984). He ranked third in the American League in 1977 with a range factor of 5.16 per nine innings at shortstop. His career range factor of 4.841 per nine innings at shortstop ranks as the 25th best in Major League history.
1953Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
1953Israeli-Soviet relations are severed.[†]
The State of Israel is represented in the Russian Federation through an embassy in Moscow and a consulate-general in Saint Petersburg. Russia is represented in Israel through an embassy in Tel Aviv and a consulate in Haifa. Russia is a member of the Quartet on the Middle East. For many years, Israel was a haven for Russian Jews. This was especially the case during the aliyah from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1990s.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]