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AEC drafts amendment to Atomic Energy Act to make it clear H-bomb program is included in provisions
Yugoslavs question whether member nations may initiate movement of their troops assigned to NATO; question degree of NATO responsibility in potentially aggressive movements; queries prompted by Italy shift of 3 divs to Yugoslav border; Yugoslav press says shift had Gruenther tacit approval; US sources see no treaty bar to Ital shift
Cong members lay Repub reverses to failure to fulfill '52 campaign pledges; Reprs Brown, Reed, Kirwan, Boggs, Mason, Sens Mansfield, Smathers, Bush comment
Pres Eisenhower comments on US effort to reach settlement, press conf
Pres Eisenhower announces USSR rejection, press conf; says USSR sets impossible conditions; stresses US eagerness to reach accord
1953Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author and academic[†]
Joyce Maynard is an American novelist and journalist. She began her career in journalism in the 1970s, writing for several publications, most notably Seventeen magazine and The New York Times. Maynard contributed to Mademoiselle and Harrowsmith magazines in the 1980s, while also beginning a career as a novelist with the publication of her first novel, Baby Love (1981). Her second novel, To Die For (1992), drew on the Pamela Smart murder case and was adapted by Gus Van Sant into the film To Die For in 1995. Maynard received significant media attention in 1998 with the publication of her memoir At Home in the World, in which she describes her relationship with J. D. Salinger.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]