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Cong hopes to finish work by Aug 14
Reece says com is interested in tax-exempt status of all foundations, reply to Hays on radio-TV program; says Govt probes Des Moines Lawsonomy U among others; Hays denies Reece charge that he sought to disrupt hearings; will include study of Facts Forum programs in com rept
Knight group wins out when roll-call vote rather than secret ballot is ruled through Knowland maneuver; Ahmanson elected after Arbuthnot withdraws; if tradition is followed Ahmanson will be state chmn in crucial '56; Assemblyman Caldecott elected chmn; Knight refuses Nixon group requests that he deny Nixon group repudiated slate and that Nixon had role incontroversy; Hillings, Knowland, others s; Nixon only pub word to meeting was greeting
US alarmed; Commerce Dept urges rise in trade with free world; '53 deficit set at $1,135,000,000; Japanese suggest wider trade with USSR bloc
by Chief Magistrate Murtagh
1954Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach[†]
Raymond Vernon Jennings is a former South African cricketer. He was one of South Africa's leading wicket-keepers during the suspension of the South African national team from international cricket during the apartheid era.
1954Pete Thomas, English drummer[†]
Peter Michael Thomas is an English rock drummer best known for his collaboration with singer Elvis Costello, both as a member of his band the Attractions and with Costello as a solo artist. Besides his lengthy career as a studio musician and touring drummer, he has been a member of the band Squeeze during the 1990s and a member of the supergroup Works Progress Administration during the early 2000s.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]