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strikes slacken; rise in retirement age and some dismissals decreed; Socialists continue effort to reconvene Assembly
These are the key dates in the atomic arms race between the United States and the U. S. S. R.:
W L Laurence repts Brit spy Dr Fuchs gave USSR H-bomb secrets in '44
MONTREAL, Aug. 8 -- Canada took the semi-final round of the North American Davis Cup tennis competition against Cuba today by winning the doubles match, 6 -- 3, 6 -- 4, 6 -- 2, for an unsurmountable 3-0 lead.
One of the great price barometers of the world metal markets went back into action last week after a lapse of nearly fourteen years -- and the initial readings indicated some squally weather ahead for copper producers.
1953Kay Stenshjemmet, Norwegian speed skater[†]
Kay Arne Stenshjemmet is a former speed skater from Norway.
1953Jean Tirole, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Jean Tirole is a French economist who is currently a professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University. He focuses on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and psychology. In particular, he focuses on the regulation of economic activity in a way that does not hinder innovation while maintaining fair rules. Tirole's work is largely theoretical and explored in mathematical models, not empirical research.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]