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Pres Coty leads French in D-Day observance, Bayeaux and Arromanches; hails Brit; Churchill message hails French resistance role
J. Robert Oppenheimer, 50, is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. He was wartime director of the Los Alamos A-bomb laboratory. Since 1947 he has been a member -- and until two years ago the chairman -- of the General Advisory Committee of nine scientists, appointed by the President under the McMahon Act to advise the Atomic Energy Commission.
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1954Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer and manager; 91 caps for Poland and voted Best Young Player at the 1974 FIFA World Cup[†]
Władysław Antoni Żmuda is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a defender for Śląsk Wrocław, Widzew Łódź, Hellas Verona, New York Cosmos and US Cremonese. He earned 91 caps for the Poland national team and is a four-time FIFA World Cup participant. At the 1974 FIFA World Cup, where Poland claimed third place, he received the FIFA Young Player Award.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]