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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov, 16-- A third-string fullback, Bob White, sparked Ohio State to the Big Ten football championship and a berth in the Rose Bowl today.
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HOUSTON, Nov. 16-Rice's Owls combined a mighty defense with the fancy work of two senior quarterbacks, Frank Ryan and King Hill, to upset Texas A. and M., the nation's No. 1 team, 7-6, in a thrilling battle before a crowd of over 72,000 today.
The reduction in the discount rate last week dissipated almost immediately the atmosphere of heaviness and uncertainty that had been hanging over the financial markets.
IN these times, when a lot of worried people in motionpicture realms are wringing their hands and wondering bleakly what they can put up that the customers will buy, it...
1957Jim Babjak, American guitarist and songwriter[†]
Jim Babjak is an American guitarist and ex-banker. He is the lead guitar player and co-founder of The Smithereens. Babjak has written and sung several songs for the band. He also is the leader of the band Buzzed Meg.
1957Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.[†]
The Vickers Viscount is a retired British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee, it entered service in 1953 and was the first turboprop-powered airliner.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]