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NYC Educ Bd com urges annual $300,000 subsidy to stimulate hs programs; notes $358,908 deficit, '47-52; proposal backed by Bd Pres Levitt and Supt Jansen; Levitt comments
Sen Ives defends flexible support
Eisenhower calls Repub Cong leaders to strategy conf, Denver; conf to precede Precinct Day rally at which he and Nixon will s; Repr Simpson on Pres campaign role; sees Repubs gaining 15-20 House seats
Assembly Gen Com, over US-Brlt-French opposition, backs Vishinsky demand that Assembly study USSR plan separately from rept on London conf; plan lauded by K Popovic (Yugoslavia), Assembly
A I Cassel tells com, Washington, he paid Powell $10,000 to approve rise in loan for Washington project; repts he paid Elder Michaux $12,500 for influence to get original loan; Powell again invokes 5th Amendment; Govt Acctg Office employe repts Powell deposited in bank $138,365 more than net salary, '45-54; Chicago Fed grand jury indicts 4 and Atlas Construction Co for home improvement fraud
1954Bill Buford, American author and journalist[†]
William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism."
1954David Hidalgo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
David Kent Hidalgo is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. Hidalgo frequently plays accordion, violin, 6-string banjo, cello, requinto jarocho, percussion, drums and guitar as a session musician on other artists' releases.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]