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Sold by Yankees to A Johnson Corp for $614 million; deal includes Kan City stadium; Johnson resells Stadium to K of C under longterm lease to Yankees; D Topping comments
both reptdly confess poisoning Fradens
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- The Administration is planning to alert the public that enemy agents now can smuggle compact atomic sabotage bombs into the United States.
Bd orders Dec 22 election; acts despite warnings from White House and Dewey; explains it acted to prevent Dec 24 strike
A system of color television that can be received in black and white on the 27,000,000 existing sets was approved last night by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington.
1953Kevin Beattie, English footballer (died 2018)[†]
Thomas Kevin Beattie was an English footballer. Born into poverty, he played at both professional and international levels, mostly as a centre-half. He spent the majority of his playing career at Ipswich Town, the club with which he won both the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup. He was also named the inaugural Professional Footballers' Association Young Player of the Year at the end of the 1972–73 season, and featured in the film Escape to Victory alongside many of his Ipswich teammates.
1953Elliot Easton, American guitarist and singer[†]
Elliot Easton is an American musician who is best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the American new wave band the Cars. His melodic guitar solos are an integral part of the band's music. Easton has also recorded music as a solo artist, and has played in other bands. He is a left-handed guitarist. In 2018, Easton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cars.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]