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September 18, 1953

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American Clerk to Poles in U. N. Balks at McCarthy's Red Queries; AIDE TO U. N. POLES BALKS AT INQUIRY

By Charles Grutzner

pub hearings; P Crouch identifies Reiss as professional revolutionist who held many Communist offices; Reiss testifies; refuses to answer queries on Communist activities; McCarthy to seek contempt citation and possible perjury indictment against him; UN aide corrects McCarthy on referring to Reiss as UN employe; subcom queries law partners A Unger and D Freedman who employed Reiss as researcher; McCarthy queries them on pol activities; they do not answer; McCarthy to seek contempt citation against Unger

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MOSCOW REPORTS NEW ATOM BOMBS BUT SUGGESTS BAN; Urges Prohibition on Weapons of Mass Destruction -- U. S. Policy Is Again Attacked

By the Associated Press

Izvestia repts Govt presses indus uses

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Pacifiers of Labor Got $164,000 From Track; LABOR EXPERTS GOT $164,000 AT TRACK

By Unknown Author

Lewis, T E: Howell indicted

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QUILL THREATENS TO SLOW SUBWAYS; Says He Will Use Old Tactics Unless Transit Agency Talks Pay With Him by Tuesday QUILL THREATENS TO SLOW SUBWAYS

By Unknown Author

repts $545,518 cut in operating costs since July 1

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DULLES BIDS SOVIET BACK UNITED KOREA AND SETTLE ISSUES; In U.N. Appeal He Urges Accords in Germany and Austria and Indo-China Peace LISTS SIX MAIN PROBLEMS Reassures Moscow on Arms and Encirclement -- Presses for Atomic Control Dulles Asks Soviet to Join the U.S. In Moves to End World Tensions

By Thomas J. Hamiltonspecial To the New York Times

Sec Dulles urges USSR cooperate to permit Assoc States' independence to come peacefully, s, UN

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1953Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (born 1927)^[†]

Baron Charles Victor Raymond André Evance de Tornaco was a racing driver from Belgium. He participated in 4 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 22 June 1952. He scored no championship points.

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In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people^[†]

Headlines from September 18, 1953

American Clerk to Poles in U. N. Balks at McCarthy's Red Queries; AIDE TO U. N. POLES BALKS AT INQUIRY

MOSCOW REPORTS NEW ATOM BOMBS BUT SUGGESTS BAN; Urges Prohibition on Weapons of Mass Destruction -- U. S. Policy Is Again Attacked

Pacifiers of Labor Got $164,000 From Track; LABOR EXPERTS GOT $164,000 AT TRACK

QUILL THREATENS TO SLOW SUBWAYS; Says He Will Use Old Tactics Unless Transit Agency Talks Pay With Him by Tuesday QUILL THREATENS TO SLOW SUBWAYS

DULLES BIDS SOVIET BACK UNITED KOREA AND SETTLE ISSUES; In U.N. Appeal He Urges Accords in Germany and Austria and Indo-China Peace LISTS SIX MAIN PROBLEMS Reassures Moscow on Arms and Encirclement -- Presses for Atomic Control Dulles Asks Soviet to Join the U.S. In Moves to End World Tensions

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