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WASHINGTON, July 5 -- President Eisenhower has won or is on the way to winning in five of eleven major legislative areas as the Eighty-third Congress presses toward adjournment by the end of this month.
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Independence Hall ceremonies; Eisenhower message
wholesale prices take sudden rise; conditions described, Smithfield market, London; illus; Hill and E Shinwell s, Commons; prices, not unusual elsewhere, called 'crazy' by trade
US-Brit talks begin, London, on sovereignty means; problems of separating Bonn contract from EDC cited
1954Allyce Beasley, American actress[†]
Allyce Beasley is an American actress. She is best known for her role as rhyming, love-struck receptionist Agnes DiPesto in the television series Moonlighting. From 2001 to 2007, she was the announcer on Playhouse Disney, a morning lineup of programming for young children on Disney Channel. She appeared briefly as a guidance counselor in the comedy film Legally Blonde and played Coach's daughter, Lisa Pantusso, on Cheers. She also announced the safety video during The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida.
1954Willie Randolph, American baseball player and manager[†]
William Larry Randolph is an American former professional baseball second baseman, coach, and manager. During an 18-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB), he played from 1975 to 1992 for six different teams, most notably the New York Yankees with whom he won back-to-back world titles against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He has joined ESPN as a post-season baseball analyst, beginning in September 2013. Mainly, he appeared on Baseball Tonight and provided updates during Monday and Wednesday night September network telecasts.
1954Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (born 1866)[†]
Cornelia Sorabji was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system. Hoping to remedy this, Sorabji presented herself for the LLB examination of Bombay University in 1897 and the pleader's examination of Allahabad High Court in 1899. She became the first female advocate in India but would not be recognised as a barrister until the law which barred women from practising was changed in 1923.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]