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Dr Hirsch offers plan for Govt-business joint low-cost export credit ins to meet foreign competition; private trader would assume part of risk
Cornell unleashed a thirteenhit attack off two Columbia pitchers to hand the Lions their fourth consecutive Ivy League loss, 13 -- 5, yesterday at Baker Field.
visits Pres Eisenhower
Mundt holds McCarthy threat to reclaim place on subcom not 'practical,' int; repts ways to speed hearings considered; Nixon, Sen Ferguson concerned over hearings duration; Mundt explains deferring Surine testimony; Knowland sees hearings not delaying legis
S G Atlas on trade outlook, Cross County Center, Yonkers; says center must gross at least $50 million; nearby stores confident on meeting competition; indus leaders views
1954Elliot Goldenthal, American composer and conductor[†]
Elliot Goldenthal is an American composer of contemporary classical music and film and theatrical scores. A student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, he is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2002 for his score to the motion picture Frida, directed by his longtime partner Julie Taymor.
1954Dawn Primarolo, English politician[†]
Dawn Primarolo, Baroness Primarolo, is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South from 1987 until 2015, when she stood down. She was Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families at the Department for Children, Schools and Families from June 2009 to May 2010 and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2015. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service. She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]