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showdown on Rules Com procedure seen as Martin reptdly fails to get Reed to compromise; McCormack scores Rules Com action; coming vote on it explained; Martin and Halleck confident; party polls of House views
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Harrison returns to Korea after conf with Clark; speculation on conf, on resumption of talks
Wiley foreign policy s to US Trade-Mark Assn urging Pres Eisenhower act against Repub opponents of Adm foreign policy
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1953Igor Gräzin, Estonian academic and politician[†]
Igor Gräzin (birth name: Russian: Игорь Николаевич Грязин, romanized: Igor Nikolayevich Gryazin is an Estonian academic and politician currently serving as a member of the Tallinn City Council. He is a former member of Riigikogu and former Member of the European Parliament. Currently sitting as an independent city councillor, he was former affiliated with the Reform Party until 2019 and the Centre Party until 2024.
1953Alice McDermott, American novelist[†]
Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. She is the author of nine novels and a collection of essays. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Absolution was awarded the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]