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GLASGOW, June 13 -- A touring American track and field squad won three events -- setting records in two of them -- before 25,000 today in the Glasgow Police Coronation games.
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THE arrival within a span of one week of three such exceptional films as "Julius Caesar," "Man on a Tightrope" and the Coronation documentary, "A Queen Is Crowned," has devilishly plunged the choice of subject for this Sabbath article upon the determination of eeny, meeny, miney, mo.
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1953Tom Cole, Welsh-American racing driver (born 1922)[†]
Thomas Lionel Howard Cole, Jr., also known as Tom Cole or Tommy Cole, was a British-American racing driver and co-creator of the Cadillac-Allard sports car. Afflicted by childhood polio, he served in non-combat roles in World War II, and then took up rallying, hillclimbing, and sports car racing full-time after the war. He died, aged 31, in a crash while driving in the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]