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Asking $15-billion rise in statutory debt limit
Brit Labor MPs score Dulles for pledging to quit conf; Attlee charges unilateral action; Govt leaders say GB expects to be consulted before walkout, is not committed to take similar step; rept confs being held on seating China in UN; says GB urges US to induce Rhee to abide by UN policy
12 of 35 Tammany AD leaders from 10 of 16 dists back Impellitteri; stress party unity need; L C Butts does not sign announcement; B Stand leads group; Wagner and DeSapio statements; see fight between liberals and conservatives; Wagner mentions dissidents Stand, Moses, Kantor and Connolly whose names were brought up in recent crime probes; Wagner backers among AD leaders reaffirm support; A D Monaco not to back Impellitteri
Gen Clark says Korean truce does not lessen UN task in Far East
AEC semi-annual rept stresses reactor and power development
1953Ted Baillieu, Australian architect and politician, 46th Premier of Victoria[†]
Edward Norman Baillieu is a former Australian politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2010 to 2013. He was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2014, representing the electorate of Hawthorn. He was elected leader of the Liberal Party in opposition in 2006, and served as Premier from 2010 until 2013 after winning the 2010 state election. He resigned as Premier on 6 March 2013, and was succeeded by Denis Napthine.
1953Jimmy Cook, South African cricketer and coach[†]
Stephen James Cook is a former South African association football and cricketer who played in three cricket Test matches and four One Day Internationals from 1991 to 1993. His son Stephen Cook played for Gauteng and the national side, the Proteas. He holds the unique distinction of having faced the first ball of South Africa's international cricket match since readmission.
1953Hugh McDowell, English cellist (died 2018)[†]
Hugh Alexander McDowell was an English cellist and member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) and related acts.
1953Robert A. Taft, American soldier and politician (born 1889)[†]
Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate majority leader, and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who blocked expansion of the New Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he co-sponsored the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops, created the concept of right-to-work states, and regulated other labor practices.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]