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Stassen tells Sen com he doubts $2-billion cut, Sen Wiley rept on testimony; says US has $9 billion unexpended
Monaghan rejects new plea for permit; cites US Atty Gen listing of May Day Com as subversive; says Union Sq is available for rally in interests of free speech and assembly; com atty assails ruling; issue revd
WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Senator H. Alexander Smith, Republican of New Jersey, with the reported backing of Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican of Ohio, the Majority Leader, proposed today freeing of the powerful building trades unions of the American Federation of Labor from all provisions of the Taft-Hartley Law.
Communists soften stand; hint they may name Asian nation as neutral; hint compromise on time required to 'allay POW fears'; UN holds physical transfer of POWs to neutral impractical and tantamount to deportation and expatriation; bars force in repatriation; Rhee opposes shifting POWs to neutral; would compromise on Chinese; Communists seek accord on shipping POWs prior to accord on neutral; UN opposes giving pol conf final say on POWs; Peiping radio charges UN team fails to move toward accord
35 freed Amers arrive, Hawaii; illus
1953Bill Drummond, British musician[†]
William Ernest Drummond is a Scottish artist, musician, writer, and record producer. He was a co-founder of the late-1980s avant-garde pop group the KLF and its 1990s media-manipulating successor, the K Foundation, with which he burned £1 million in 1994.
1953The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.[†]
3D television (3DTV) is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, or any other form of 3D display. Most modern 3D television sets use an active shutter 3D system or a polarized 3D system, and some are autostereoscopic without the need of glasses. As of 2017, most 3D TV sets and services are no longer available from manufacturers.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]