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BOSTON, June 12 -- Larry Doby's single with the bases filled in the seventh inning enabled the Cleveland Indians to defeat the Boston Red Sox, 4 -- 3, today and take over the American League lead before 18,917.
OCEANPORT, N. J., June 12 -- Master Ace, owned by Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, had to break a track record at Monmouth Park today to beat William Wickham's fine sprinter, White Skies.
J Murphy and Mrs A McCann wounded by unidentified sniper, 8th Av and 50th St; weapon found
W L Laurence repts Chmn Strauss revealed on May 25 that Nautilus prototype reactor at Arco Testing Station made simulated submerged voyage across Atlantic at full speed; idea was Rear Adm Rickover's after reactor, completely submerged, had run 24 hrs; ex-Pres Truman June 14 '52 remarks on ship's performance recalled
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1954Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (died 2011)[†]
Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper was a Polish farmer, trade unionist and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture, and the leader of Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland. Known for his radical rhetoric and aggressive farmers' protests, Lepper was considered a far-left populist and an agrarian social-traditionalist, compared to left-wing figures such as José Bové, Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Juan Perón. He left a long-lasting impact on Polish politics, emerging as the "defender of the oppressed and (...) all working people, the weak, and the needy." He was particularly known for his Balcerowicz must go slogan, which he coined to protest the neoliberal Balcerowicz Plan that had deregulated and privatized the Polish economy. Lepper considered the capitalist transition "economic genocide".
1954Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria[†]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian economist, who has been serving as the director-general of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. She is the first ever woman and also the first African to lead the World Trade Organization as director-general.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]