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BOSTON, Sept. 19 -- As the Yankees moved into the Hub today to begin their farewell three-game series with the Red Sox here Manager Casey Stengel looked hopefully forward to seeing his Bombers receive a good workout that would start putting them on edge for their more important world series engagement ahead.
Duke Snider warmed up for the series with the Yankees by belting two successive home runs off Robin Roberts at Ebbets Field yesterday, driving in three runs and pacing the Dodgers to a 5 -- 4 victory over the Phils. Jackie Robinson singled home the other markers.
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The old and perplexing question -- How to deal with the Communists? -- confronted the free world anew last week.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]