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2 million strike; Communist-led union asks strike extension; some services resume; Socialist Deputies Depreux and Gazier demand Laniel reconvene Assembly; union delegates walk out of Pub Adm Council
Anastasia fails to turn over Local 327-1 books and records to ILA; union has not ousted him as business agent and put in 3 admrs; Ryan and Anastasia differ on latter's refusal to yield books
15th Dist leader Reilly backs Impellitteri; Stevensonian Dem Club not to endorse candidate; urges repudiating Impellitteri; he visits his campaign hdqrs; Socialist Workers party names D L Weiss as candidate
16 UN Allies in Korea warn that truce must not be allowed to jeopardize any other part of Asia; declaration was signed in Washington July 27
Statement on signing Watkins immigration bill
1953Nigel Mansell, English racing driver[†]
Nigel Ernest James Mansell is a British former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1995. Mansell won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1992 with Williams, and won 31 Grands Prix across 15 seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Mansell won the IndyCar World Series in 1993 with Newman/Haas Racing, and remains the only driver to have simultaneously held both the World Drivers' Championship and the American open-wheel National Championship.
1953Don Most, American actor and singer[†]
Don Most is an American actor. He is known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy Days.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]