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D J Riesner for NYC Repub Legis members, charges Wagner surrenders to NYC Dem leaders; backs McGovern stand; city Council com delay on extension bill seen; work on ways to implement it proceeds
ACWA rept scores McCarthyism as threat to freedoms
US Atty for NJ W F Tompkins to be succeeded by R Del Tufo
PITTSBURGH, May 8 -- One of the sickest of the country's sick industries is getting sicker.
reptd captured by Vietminh
1954Mike Hagerty, American actor (died 2022)[†]
Michael Gerard Hagerty was an American actor. He was known for playing comedic blue-collar workers, including his recurring roles as Mr. Treeger, the building superintendent, on Friends and the manager of a muffler shop on HBO's Lucky Louie.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]