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Warsaw radio repts all RC Bishops take loyalty oath to Govt; Bishop Klepacz s; GB regrets action
NYC grand jury probes for possible fraud, illegal comms and kickbacks; Cardinal Ins Agency partner DeFeo charged with giving evasive replies on how he spent $50,000 for entertainment, travel and promotion
3d Av El, Chatham Sq-City Hall, to be discontinued Dec 31; sec to be surrendered to city Jan 15 for razing
FCC waives waiting period, requires notice in advance of telecasts only; CBS leases RKO 81st St Theatre for conversion to color programs production; Canadian reaction
EDC an issue in French Pres election; its champion Y Delbos withdraws; its opponent M Naegelen is strong contender; Laniel, neutral, leads in voting
1953Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)[†]
Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect".
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]