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Mgt Survey Com rept finds outgrown personnel adm; sees civil service blocking real merit system
State Dept holds Chou plan worth exploring despite ambiguities; welcomes hint that Communists would solve POW problem on humanitarian basis; Chou move linked to USSR 'peace offensive,'
Dewey signs bill for 15% rise effective May 1 affecting over 835,000 tenants; defends bill; stresses 2-yr extension of curbs and limit on evictions; scores opponents; provisions; Dewey comment on provisions, memo
strike fails; police quash Communist riot attempts
foreign royalty, US officials and others attend; illus
1953Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (died 2014)[†]
Dennis David Kahekilimamaoikalanikeha Kamakahi was a Hawaiian slack key guitarist, recording artist, music composer, and Christian minister. He was a three-time Grammy Award winner, and in 2009 he was inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]