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Hundreds of American fliers with considerable wartime experience are willing to fly fighter and bomber planes in Indo-China for about $25,000 a year.
14,233 inoculated on 1st day, NYC; school scene described; illus
Offers Korea unification plan, Geneva conf, similar to plan he offered before war outbreak, June '50
comments on inquiry bd findings on Marine Col Schwable germ war confession
4th day of hearings; Stevens, Cohn, Jenkins testify; McCarthy tells newsmen he has given subcom names of 2 Govt employes, 1 of whom heard 2d tell of destruction of monitored phone calls; 2d said he spoke falsely to impress neighbors
1954Timothy Curley, American educator[â ]
Timothy M. Curley is a former athletic director for Penn State University.
1954Michael P. Jackson, American politician, 3rd Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security[â ]
Michael Peter Jackson was the George W. Bush administration's Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, beginning in March 2005 and ending with his resignation in October 2007. Jackson is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
1954Vic Sotto, Filipino actor-producer, singer-songwriter, comedian and television personality[â ]
Marvic Valentin "Vic" Castelo Sotto, popularly known as Bossing, is a Filipino actor, comedian, and television personality. Prolific in film and television in the Philippines since the 1970s, he is known for playing comedic roles in television sitcoms and films. He is also one of the three pioneer hosts of Eat Bulaga! together with his elder brother Tito Sotto and Joey De Leon.
1954Ron Zook, American football player and coach[â ]
Ronald Andrew Zook is an American football coach who is a special teams quality control coach at the University of Maryland. He was the head football coach at the University of Florida from 2002 to 2004 and the University of Illinois at UrbanaâChampaign from 2005 to 2011.
1954LĂ©on Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)[â ]
LĂ©on Jouhaux was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[â ]