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Mex asks safe conduct
NYCTA outlines 6-yr, $1-million improvement program, '55 capital budget request
Sen com tentatively approves George-proposed 10% cut; H A Smith and George fear bigger cut would have adverse effect abroad
Sen Agr Com, 13-2, backs bill for rigid supports; Sens Anderson and Williams opposed; Sens Aiken, Ellender, Russell and Young comment
strikers accept terms agreed upon by Sec Mitchell, W P Reuther and union reprs Swisher and J Joy; terms do not guarantee wage rise; propose union-AEC conf and study of labor-mgt relations
1954Tommy Bowden, American football player and coach[†]
Tommy Pearce Bowden is an American former college football coach. He served as the head coach at Clemson University from 1999 until October 13, 2008. He is a son of Bobby Bowden, former head football coach of Florida State University, against whom he coached in games nicknamed the "Bowden Bowl." He is also a brother of Terry Bowden, who served as the head coach of Auburn.
1954Andre Dawson, American baseball player[†]
Andre Nolan Dawson, nicknamed "the Hawk" and "Awesome Dawson", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for four different teams as a center and right fielder, spending most of his career with the Montreal Expos and Chicago Cubs.
1954Neil Tennant, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player[†]
Neil Francis Tennant is an English singer, songwriter and music journalist, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981. He is the lead singer and main lyricist of the group. He was a journalist for Smash Hits and assistant editor for the magazine in the mid-1980s.
1954Calogero Vizzini, Italian mob boss (born 1877)[†]
Calogero Vizzini, also commonly known as "Don Calò", was a Sicilian Mafia boss of Villalba in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. He was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses of Sicily after World War II until his death in 1954. In the media, Don Calò was often depicted as the "boss of bosses" – although such a position does not exist in the loose structure of Cosa Nostra.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]