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soft coal fund cuts 35,000 disabled miners and dependents monthly maintenance benefits effective Mar 1, holding Fed and state agencies responsible for payments; continues certain other payments; cuts surviving kin benefits to $1,000
Gives Eisenhower engraved crystal cup on 1st anniv as Pres; illus
sessions continue; Turcott opposes demand that TWU be exclusive bargaining agent for all NYCTA workers; NYCTA counsel Zorn comments
Bidault gets French Cabinet support on key issues; is pessimistic about conf
Repts it has found no substance to Sen McCarthy '53 charge that employes engaged in $150,000 'shakedown' of a friendly Govt in '47; McCarthy silent
1954Thomas de Maizière, German politician of the Christian Democratic Union[†]
Karl Ernst Thomas de Maizière is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2018, as well as Federal Minister of Defence from 2011 to 2013. He previously served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the First Merkel cabinet from 2005 to 2009. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Bundestag for Meißen.
1954Idrissa Ouedraogo, Burkinabé director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)[†]
Idrissa Ouédraogo was a Burkinabé filmmaker. His work often explored the conflict between rural and city life and tradition and modernity in his native Burkina Faso and elsewhere in Africa. He is best known for his feature film Tilaï, which won the Grand Prix at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and Samba Traoré (1993), which was nominated for the Silver Bear award at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
1954Phil Thompson, English footballer and coach[†]
Philip Bernard Thompson is an English retired footballer, who played as a defender for Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s. During this time, he also represented the England national football team on 42 occasions, and captained England on six occasions. After retiring as a player, he later served Liverpool as assistant manager and, during the 2001–02 season, acted as caretaker for six months while manager Gérard Houllier was ill. He was a pundit on Soccer Saturday on Sky Sports for 22 years until August 2020, does occasional work as a pundit for TV 2 (Norway), and is a regular Visiting Fellow at the University of Liverpool where he teaches on the Football Industries MBA.
1954The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.[†]
Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor. The power plant heats water to produce steam for a turbine used to turn the ship's propeller through a gearbox or through an electric generator and motor. Nuclear propulsion is used primarily within naval warships such as nuclear submarines and supercarriers. A small number of experimental civil nuclear ships have been built.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]