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urges greater stress on air power and new weapons, conf with Dem and Repub Cong leaders
J R Landis, Bur employe, and wife arrested; $128,000 recovered; Landis reptdly admits theft; neighbor W Giles seized
Sen McCarthy attacks pres Pusey for '53 refusal to oust Assoc Prof Furry for refusing to answer his subcom queries on communism
The old International Long- shoremen's Association got another $50,000 yesterday from John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. The contribution brings to $100,000 the help the union has received from the miners' head in the fight to hold control of the piers against an American Federation of Labor challenge.
Western Big 3 to offer to USSR at Foreign Mins Council conf a concrete proposal for Eur security
1954Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (died 2008)[†]
Anthony Minghella was a British playwright and filmmaker. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He directed Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), The English Patient (1996), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and Cold Mountain (2003), and produced Iris (2001).
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]