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Adm and Cong Repubs face rift over Adm draft resolution holding US will not accept peoples enslavement resulting from secret accords; some want outright repudiation of accords
US High Comm repts E Ger set to form no man's land, by evacuating 4 communities, in move to split city by Mar through use of strict border controls; holds E Berlin transit officials told Communist press that rapid transit lines would end at border to allow passengers to pass through check points; notes other preparations; maps
House com cuts $75,000 supplemental funds request to $25,000, funds for only 1 adviser; Repr Taber repts Pres concurred
House Ways & Means Com approves Reed bill; Martin orders it held in Rules Com until May 1; comment; Reed silent; Repr Cooper comments
Danish Gen quells troops march on Copenhagen to protest service extension from 12 to 18 mos
1953Becky Ann Baker, American actress[†]
Becky Ann Baker is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jean Weir on the NBC comedy-drama series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and as Loreen Horvath on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017); she earned two Critics' Choice Television Award nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the latter.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]