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MIAMI, March 6 -- The Brooklyn Dodgers lost to the Milwaukee Braves, 3 -- 2, in their opening exhibition of the spring training season today.
The National Labor Relations Board will go into Federal Court tomorrow to seek a contempt citation against the striking International Longshoremen's Association and its leaders.
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TUCSON, Ariz., March 6 -- There is, here in the desert region, resentment of talk that the swing in spring training camps is toward Florida. And, as the Giants and Indians launched the exhibition season in 85-degree temperature today, the local citizenry was delighted by the announcement that because of rain, only one contest was played in Florida.
HALLANDALE, Fla., March 6 -- Spring Hill Farm's Dr. Stanley, a 10-to-1 shot, furnished a mild surprise by driving to victory in the $15,000 added Appleton Handicap before 19,921 at Gulfstream Park today. His triumph capped a day of upsets, which produced among other sidelights a $1,158.10 daily double.
1954Eva Brunne, Swedish bishop[†]
Gerd Eva Cecilia Brunne is a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She served as the Bishop of Stockholm from 2009 till 2019. She is the first openly lesbian bishop of a mainstream church in the world and the first bishop of the Church of Sweden to be in a registered same-sex partnership.
1954Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)[†]
Otto Paul Hermann Diels was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for cyclohexene synthesis. The pair was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1950 for their work. Their method of synthesizing cyclic organic compounds proved valuable for the manufacture of synthetic rubber and plastic. He completed his education at the University of Berlin, where he later worked. Diels was employed at the University of Kiel when he completed his Nobel Prize-winning work, and remained there until he retired in 1945. Diels was married, with five children. He died in 1954.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]