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Mayor Wagner announces full-scale anti-jaywalking drive will start Nov 14; names J Straus chmn of 21-man Mayor's Pedestrian Safety Com; says McCann-Erickson ad agency volunteers services; Wiley, Kennedy hope educ alone will solve problem; Citizens Traffic Safety Bd chmn Magnus urges pedestrian control law
Faubus says Eisenhower seeks 'complete surrender'; bars yielding powers, news conf; defends wording of his pledge as unequivocal assurance that integration will not be obstructed; segregationists attempt to stage student walkout at he fails; effigy of hanged Negro burned at hs; crowd dispersed; illus; Walker reinforces escort for Negroes; Matthews threatens to suspend school boycotters; Mrs K Harper describes FBI querying of her daughter and another student on Sept 7; incident formed basis of Faubus charge that some students were held incommunicado; J J Casper of FBI comments
Milwaukee wins 2d game, 4-2
conf; A M Kasatskin details design and performance of USSR's 'Meteo' (Meteorological) rocket used for high-alt research, 1st pub of rocket data by USSR; says parachutes have permitted recovery of nose and main rocket; rocket launching and ascent and nose with parachute after descent illus
Eisenhower, queried on s, says he recd 'warm message' from King Saud; sees situation easing
1957Bill Fagerbakke, American actor[†]
William Fagerbakke is an American actor. He voices Patrick Star in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise, and played Michael "Dauber" Dybinski on the sitcom Coach. He also appeared in 12 episodes of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother as Marshall Eriksen's father Marvin.
1957Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (died 2013)[†]
Yngve Moe was a Norwegian bass guitarist and founding member of the rock band Dance with a Stranger.
1957Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm[†]
Russell Wendell Simmons is an American entrepreneur, writer and record executive. He co-founded the hip-hop label Def Jam Recordings, and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris. He has promoted veganism and a yoga lifestyle, and published books on lifestyle, health, and entrepreneurship. Simmons' net worth was estimated at $340 million in 2011.
1957Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.[†]
Sputnik 1, sometimes referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc batteries became depleted. Aerodynamic drag caused it to fall back into the atmosphere on 4 January 1958.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]