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Western Big 3 set USSR clarification of stand on free all-Ger elections as pre-condition for Big-4 conf, notes to USSR
urges Western global strategy with stress on nuclear air power, Calif Tech Inst
300 prisoners beat and slash 5 attendants in 2-hr riot, State Inst for Insane, Trenton
PRR and Webb & Knapp reach terms on option for air rights over station cite; station to be modernized below st level with new bldg to be built above it; other details unknown; J M Symes, W Zeckendorf comment
NJ police linked to 'courtesy cards' racket; Teaneck Sgt Norton June '52 lr to Goodrich thanking him for hon NJ PBA card issued to K Keller and pledging to reciprocate read to Kings County grand jury; reptdly noted that copies were sent to NYC PBA pres Carton and retired Teaneck ptl S Baker; Norton holds such cards did not confer immunity or involve any payment; Asst Dist Atty Koota (NYC) says lr might have been shown to prospective advertisers in police orgns journals; comments on possible value of some papers seized from Goodrich home; NYS Sup Ct, Manhattan, hears wiretapped phone calls in which Goodrich allegedly talked about wholesaling 'courtesy cards'; refuses to vacate search warrant or to return seized items; decision reserved on habeas corpus writ; Koota says unrevealed lr from Orangetown (Rockland County) Police Dept might be in same category as Norton lr
1954Wayne Bartholomew, Australian surfer[†]
Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew is an Australian world champion surfer, surf sports innovator, community advocate and politician. Bartholomew is the former CEO and president of the Association of Surfing Professionals and the creator of the Dream Tour format of professional competition surfing.
1954Lawrence Summers, American economist and academic[†]
Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers is an American economist who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as the director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, where he is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. In November 2023, Summers joined the board of directors of artificial general intelligence company OpenAI.
1954Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (born 1886)[†]
Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor and composer. He is regarded as one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. He was a major influence for many later conductors, and his name is often mentioned when discussing their interpretative styles.
1954In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.[†]
Sylacauga is a city in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 12,578.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]