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illus with Chiang and Amb Kim Hong Il; Chiang hopes for common effort to combat communism; gets highest SK award; conf lasts 6 hrs; speculation
Amb Lodge says Pres Eisenhower would back full independence if PR asks it, UN Assembly; says Pres would welcome PR adherence to Rio pact and UN Charter; Assembly recognizes self-governing status, relieves US of transmitting data; Gov Munoz Marin comment
NY Times notice to readers warns of shutdown if other unions respect picket lines; announces affected papers plan to run their news as ad in Herald-Tribune if they cannot pub
Dean to offer counter-proposal embodying much of Communist plan including non-voting role for neutrals; outline
mil police foil attempt by 2 thugs; Ft Jay branch, Govs Is
1953Alistair Darling, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 2023)[†]
Alistair Maclean Darling, Baron Darling of Roulanish, was a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under prime minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1987 to 2015, representing Edinburgh Central and Edinburgh South West.
1953Helen De Michiel, American director and producer[†]
Helen De Michiel is an American director, producer, media arts advocate, strategist and author whose work includes film, television, multimedia installation and digital transmedia.
1953Sixto Lezcano, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach[†]
Sixto Joaquin Lezcano Curras is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 12 seasons (1974–1985). He played for five MLB teams and won a Gold Glove during his career.
1953Gordon Marsden, English journalist and politician[†]
Gordon Marsden is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Blackpool South from 1997 to 2019.
1953Frank Olson, American biologist and chemist (born 1910)[†]
Frank Rudolph Emmanuel Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and an employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) who worked at Camp Detrick in Maryland. At a meeting in rural Maryland, he was covertly dosed with LSD by his colleague Sidney Gottlieb and, nine days later, plunged to his death from the window of the Hotel Statler in New York. The U.S. government first described his death as a suicide, and then as misadventure, while others allege murder. The Rockefeller Commission report on the CIA in 1975 acknowledged their having conducted covert drug studies on fellow agents. Olson's death is one of the most mysterious outcomes of the CIA mind control project MKUltra.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]