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joint Cong com holds US atomic strength foredooms to failure any Communist aggression
Educ Bd asks PEA to probe Prof Clark charges of segregation; Clark holds Negroes attend predominantly Negro schools where teaching and guidance are inferior; Bd pres Levitt, noting all-Negro dists give rise to all-Negro schools, says integration is ultimate aim; PEA forms study com headed by Mrs Shapiro
Internatl Ct rules, 9-3, that indemnities awarded to ousted employes cannot be refused by Assembly; upholds awards to 11 ousted US natls; Assembly to act in fall; State Dept silent; Sens Welker, Ferguson comment
Eisenhower suffers defeat when House rejects reinsurance aspect of program
Flanders repts Sen leaders will permit showdown on his motion; leaders reptd sure of its defeat; Flanders asks Repub support
1954Jacinto Benavente, Spanish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)[†]
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]