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At twilight last Friday in the death house of Sing Sing Prison, the executioner threw the switch which supplies current to the electric chair. The case entitled "United States of America v. Julius Rosenberg, Ethel Rosenberg * * * defendants" was ended.
crude rises seen compensation for producers keeping excess output capacity of 1 million bbls-a-day for natl security; present stocks and rise effect on other products noted
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Norodom ends exile; leaves Bangkok for Cambodia; disappointment at neutral Thai stand seen linked
Storm signals have been flying over the domestic copper market for the last two months. Even the traditional optimists among the big copper producers have agreed that world supplies look topheavy in view of the slow buying abroad. Predictions of an imminent break in copper prices have become common place.
1953Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 2007)[†]
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]