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com hearing to open, NYC, on $14-million 'windfalls' to 18 operators; Capehart comment; A Traub, atty for Farragut Gardens, subpoenaed; West Pk (Manhattantown) developers to be questioned
Articles on problems and ltd budget
early action seen
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- Stephen A. Mitchell, Democratic National Chairman, charged today that Vice President Richard M. Nixon had told an "outright lie about the number of Communists removed from Government jobs by the Eisenhower Administration.
Toya Maru (ferry): capsizes in typhoon, Tsugaru Strait, Japan; map; nearly 1,000, including over 50 Amers, drowned; 101 reptd saved; vessel said to have been overloaded
1954Ray Hadley, Australian radio host and sportscaster[†]
Raymond Morris Hadley is a retired Australian talkback radio broadcaster and a rugby league football commentator for Channel Nine. He presents 2GB Sydney's Monday to Friday morning show, and leads the Continuous Call Team, a rugby league-based talkback radio panel program.
1954Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and conductor[†]
Dmitry Yulianovich Sitkovetsky is a Soviet and American violinist, conductor, and arranger.
1954Larry Wall, American computer programmer and author[†]
Larry Arnold Wall is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]