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Communist Central Com manifesto says defenses must be strengthened but holds aim is peace
Sen passes bill to place trading under CEA; similar bill offered by Repr Angell pending, House com; Amb Kemper conf with Eisenhower; cites Brazilians concern over rising prices; briefs 4 US women going to Brazil to study situation; Guatemalans score Sen McSmith proposal to ban their coffee; urge retaliatory ban on US products
Eisenhower warns nation can frighten itself into recession
French Assembly Foreign Affairs com opens debate on EDC; Deputy Moch criticism detailed
Wagner testifies, NYS budget hearing, Albany; illus; charges NYC unfairly treated on state aid; NYS Budget Dir Hurd replies; calls NYS generous
1954Wesley Strick, American director and screenwriter[†]
Wesley Strick is an American screenwriter who has written such films as Arachnophobia, Wolf and Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. Strick also worked as a writer/executive producer on The Man in the High Castle.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]