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Eurs see Comm rept offering minimum program for US policy
ACCIDENTS: E Hemingway and wife reptd safe after 2 crashes in upper Nile region, Uganda
J Reston repts Pres Eisenhower and Natl Security Council skeptical of conf results
Mayor Wagner urges Legis authorize bond issue for school bldg and delay hosp issue, lrs to Legis leaders; holds both issues can be financed on long-term basis from war bonus funds; Repub leaders score plan
Sen Repub leaders conf with Bricker but reach no compromise as debate nears; Knowland and Ferguson see compromise possible; CIO opposes any compromise that would alter present treaty system, wires to Sen Foreign Relations Com members
1954Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer and manager[†]
Ricardo Enrique Bochini is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is nicknamed El Bocha. He spent his nearly 20-year professional career at club Independiente, becoming one of the most emblematic players and the greatest idol in the history of the club. Bochini was a childhood idol of Argentine iconic footballer Diego Maradona.
1954Kay Cottee, Australian sailor[†]
Kay Cottee is an Australian sailor, who was the first woman to perform a single-handed, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the world. She performed this feat in 1988 in her 37 feet (11 m) yacht Blackmores First Lady, taking 189 days.
1954Renate Dorrestein, Dutch journalist and author (died 2018)[†]
Renate Maria Dorrestein was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines Libelle and Panorama. During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in Het Parool, Viva, Onkruid and Opzij. Dorrestein published her first novel (Buitenstaanders) in 1983. Her sister's suicide had a great influence on her books. Dorrestein won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. A lot of Dorrestein's books were translated, and they were sold in 14 countries.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]