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pub record of hearings, Apr 5-June 8; testimony of State Dept aide A Z Gardiner and Asst Sec Byroade on proposed mil aid to Iraq, other Near East aid revealed
1st nation-wide drill set
6 Repub Reprs urge action on McCarran-Walter Act amendment, lr to Repr C W Reed
Coulter makes pub R R Nathan Assocs 5-yr plan to make Korea stable and self-sufficient; plan provides $1.9-billion investments, $650 million of these by Korea; goals outlined; compared with SK plans
Ely holds Laos will be defended 'no matter what happens'
1954Will Patton, American actor[†]
William Rankin Patton is an American actor. He starred as Colonel Dan Weaver in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies. He also appeared in the films The Client (1994), Armageddon (1998), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Remember the Titans (2000), The Punisher (2004), American Honey (2016), Halloween (2018), and Minari (2020). He appeared opposite Kevin Costner in four films: No Way Out (1987), The Postman (1997), and Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, as well as having a guest role in seasons 3 and 4 of Costner's Paramount Network series Yellowstone (2020–2022). Patton played Deputy Marnes in season one of the 2023 TV series Silo.
1954U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.[†]
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army. Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in the North Africa campaign in 1942–1943 and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]