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In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]
1953David Boaz, American businessman and author[†]
David Douglas Boaz was a libertarian author, philosopher and editor. He was a distinguished senior fellow and the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank. Boaz was a prominent advocate for individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and non-interventionist foreign policy.
1953Richard Harding, English rugby union player[†]
Richard Mark Harding is a former rugby union international who played for England, and on his last test captained them. He also played club rugby for his home city of Bristol and was part of Bristol RFC's cup winning side of 1983. After his sporting career he has concentrated on his profession as an estate agent and chartered surveyor.
1953James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist and academic[†]
James Quesada is a Nicaraguan American Anthropologist and professor at San Francisco State University's Department of Anthropology.. His work focuses on cultural and medical anthropology, the ethnography of structural and political violence, social Suffering, critical medical anthropology, urban anthropology, culture change, transnational migration and refugee migration, North America, Central America, and the inner city.
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Montgomery urges Canada exert pol leadership, s, Toronto; holds Allied pol accord would spur defense
Moscow Red Sq arcade will revert to former use as retail trade center
mediators, employers and union reprs meet; Kornblum, Beck comment; H McSpedon calls employers offer 'liberal'; assails long tie-up; M T Lacey assails Blaikie; holds his charges helped defeat employers offer
Flying Enterprise: thousands of US and Brit banknotes salvaged by Ital salvage ship Rostro; amt secret; other equipment reptd salvaged; map; Isbrandtsen official comments
95.05; higher in some near-by areas; high barometric pressure area in SW Penna blamed; incidents
dinner chmn J J Kelly resigns; blames conflict with Mitchell; Mitchell comment; difference between natl orgn and Chicago Dem leaders seen; Kelly reptdly resigned because Sen Gillette, not he, was chosen toastmaster; J M Arvey hostility to Kelly reptd
Amb Lodge, Sir C Jebb and many other delegates hail role of UN troops, Assembly debate; Assembly, 53-5, passes resolution paying tribute to forces; Vishinsky calls it 'hypocrisy,'
US scores United Fruit expropriation and compensation as discriminatory and not supported by UN '52 resolution for resources development; more co land faces seizure
Chinese POW camp comdr reptdly says men convicted of germ warfare will be repatriated
Lewis, T E: slain, Bronx; slayer E Ryan killed fleeing police; Bldg Service Employee union reprs comment
Maj Gen Rose apptd NJ member