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In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]
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.
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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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he hopes other countries will soon join pact, int, Washington; silent on rept that US wants Turkey to join in US-Brit-French pledge to resist any aggression in area
PHILADELPHIA, June 5 -- The Cleveland Indians broke out with three runs in the eleventh inning today to defeat Philadelphia, 4 -- 1, as Mike Garcia limited the Athletics to two hits.
CINCINNATI, June 5 -- Roberto de Vicenzo of Argentina and Robert Rosburg, a former Stanford student, staged startling finishes today to share a two-stroke lead at the end of fifty-four holes in the fifty-first Western open golf tournament.
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The Peter Pan Handicap for 3-year-olds had its fifteenth and slowest running at Belmont Park yesterday, and the winner, to the surprise of most of the 35,048 customers, was the King Ranch's High Gun. He was the $13.60-for-$2 fourth choice.
CINCINNATI, June 5 -- There was still no checking the Giants today. They rode roughshod over the Redlegs, 7 to 0, to bag their second straight victory of the series before a Ladies' Day gathering of 5,741.