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W Stephenson, Eisenhower Inaugural Com official, charged with seeking $2,000 a mo or 4% comm for obtaining USN rocket launcher contracts for Centur??? Indus; co official R Parsons testimony to House subcom cited; Adm Combs says disclosure of number of launchers needed violated mil security; Stephens on admits seeking fees, denies knowing data was classified; says he got data from business tipster; Bishop denial
Adenauer and party re-elected in record vote
trend toward 2-party system seen; 9 of 14 parties fail to win enough votes to get seats; extreme right and left out; victory seen as personal for Adenauer
29 hurt, 3 safe as Chicago-bound Constellation from Seattle crashlands and burns at McChord base, Wash; illus; co-pilot, reptdly at risk of own life, and base police aid rescue
1953Marc Hunter, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter (died 1998)[†]
Marc Alexander Hunter was a New Zealand rock and pop singer, songwriter and record producer. He was the lead vocalist of Dragon, a band formed by his older brother, Todd Hunter, in Auckland in January 1972. They relocated to Sydney in May 1975. He was also a member of the Party Boys in 1985. For his solo career he issued five studio albums, Fiji Bitter, Big City Talk, Communication, Night and Day and Talk to Strangers. During the 1970s Hunter developed heroin and alcohol addictions and was incarcerated at Mt Eden Prison in Auckland in 1978. He was recklessly outspoken and volatile on-stage. In November 1978, during the band's American tour, supporting Johnny Winter, they performed in Dallas, Texas, where "he made some general stage observations about redneck buddies, illegal oral sex and utility trucks" and called the audience members "faggots". Upon his return to Australia, in February 1979, he was fired from the group by his brother, Todd.
1953Benmont Tench, American keyboardist and songwriter[†]
Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III is an American musician and singer, and a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
1953Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[†]
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. As leader of the Soviet Union, he stunned the communist world by denouncing his predecessor Joseph Stalin, embarking on a campaign of de-Stalinization, and presiding over the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]