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Bankers oppose Uniform Commercial Code Sponsored by Amer Law Inst and Natl Conf of Comrs on Uniform State Laws; code would repeal present laws regulating negotiable instruments and substitute 1 code; passed by Penna and being weighed in 8 other states; bankers urge gradual revision
Econ Advisors Council Chmn Burns repts projects planned as stand-by against possible depression
In Moscow last Tuesday evening the Ambassadors of the U. S., Britain and France called, one by one, on the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Vorosky Place. Inside the rambling, grey building each man was handed a nearly identical copy of a diplomatic note. The note spelled failure to a month-long Western effort to bring the Russians to the conference table on the question of Germany.
Anaconda $33-mlllion Yerington, Nev, mine to begin operations; described
Admmove for limit rise early in Cong session seen
1953Giorgos Foiros, Greek footballer and manager[†]
Georgios Firos is a Greek football manager and former football player.
1953John Musker, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
John Edward Musker is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He often collaborates with fellow director Ron Clements and is best known for writing and directing the Disney animated films The Great Mouse Detective (1986), The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), Hercules (1997), Treasure Planet (2002), The Princess and the Frog (2009), and Moana (2016).
1953Nand Kumar Patel, Indian politician (died 2013)[†]
Nand Kumar Patel was an Indian National Congress politician from the province of Chhattisgarh. He was elected to the Kharsia Assembly Constituency five times in a row.
1953Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1870)[†]
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is considered to be one of the richest in the language.
1953John van Melle, Dutch-South African author and educator (born 1887)[†]
Jan van Melle was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African writer. His real name was Johannes van Melle.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]