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Rents Comm weighs decontrol outside NYC area; orders McGoldrick to make recommendations; clash with Harriman seen
Senate votes, 67-22, to condemn him for contempt of Elections subcom, abuse of its members and insults to Sen during censure proceedings
Eisenhower rejects blockading Communist China or breaking ties with USSR lest free world unity be harmed, news conf; says West must be vigilant against Communist divisive moves
Reston on rancor raised by censure move; sees it continuing
conf ends; Min Carrillo Flores (Mex) hails results; C Lleras Restrepo (Colombia) sees lack of progress on some issues; Sen Wiley (US) satisfied; next conf set for Buenos Aires, '56
1954Grace Andreacchi, American-English author, poet, and playwright[â ]
Grace Andreacchi is an American-born author known for her blend of poetic language and modernism with a post-modernist sensibility. Andreacchi is active as a novelist, poet and playwright.
1954VĂ€inö Linna's war novel The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) is published.[â ]
VĂ€inö Linna was a Finnish author and a former soldier who fought in the Continuation War (1941â44). Linna gained literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas, and consolidated his position with the trilogy TÀÀllĂ€ PohjantĂ€hden alla. Both have been adapted to a film format on several occasions; The Unknown Soldier was first adapted into a film in 1955 and Under the North Star in 1968 as Here, Beneath the North Star, both directed by Edvin Laine.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[â ]