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Bao Dai and Premier debate latter's ultimatum for contact with rebels leading toward truce; mil situation seen grave as rebels enter Thai country; rebels attack Hanoi-Haiphong road; repulsed at Thotruong; map
Weather Bur issues storm warning; path traced
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 13 -- Factionalism caused by the harness racing scandals led today toward a secession movement from the United States Trotting Association by a score of pari-mutuel betting tracks.
he and Bao Dai debate ultimatum on gen elections and natl union govt; nationalists see Premier adopting their program in move to take over nationalist reform leadership; most oppose him as leader
Nixon seen in position to sway US policy
1953Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player and sportscaster[â ]
Vijay Amritraj is an Indian retired professional tennis player, sports commentator and actor from Madras. He was awarded the Padma Shri, the government of India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in 1983. In 2022, he was honored for his contributions to tennis in London by the International Tennis Hall of Fame and International Tennis Federation. On July 20, 2024 he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island.
1953Wade Davis, Canadian anthropologist, author, and photographer[â ]
Edmund Wade Davis is a Canadian cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist, photographer, and writer.
1953RenĂ© Eespere, Estonian composer[â ]
René Eespere is an Estonian composer. His best-regarded works are Glorificatio (1990) and Two Jubilations (1995), both written for mixed chorus. Other works include Concerto Ritornello for Chamber Orchestra (1982/1993), Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra (1995/98), and Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra (1996/98).
1953Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 4th Greek Minister for National Defence[â ]
Evangelos-Vasileios "Vangelis" Meimarakis is a Greek politician who served as the acting President of New Democracy and Leader of the Opposition in Greece from 5 July to 24 November 2015, competing as the challenger to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the September 2015 Greek legislative election. He lost in the run-off of the New Democracy leadership election, 2015â16. Since 2019, he has been a Member of the European Parliament.
1953Mikael Odenberg, Swedish soldier and politician, 29th Swedish Minister for Defence[â ]
Mikael Ingemarsson Odenberg is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He was a Member of Parliament from 1991 to 2006 and Minister for Defence in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2007. From 1 March 2008 to 28 February 2017 he was the director-general of Svenska kraftnÀt.
1953Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (born 1896)[â ]
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearlingâabout a boy who adopts an orphaned fawnâwon a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written before the concept of young adult fiction arose but is now commonly included in teen reading lists.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[â ]