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Sen (McClellan) com starts new probe of pro-Hoffa Teamsters locals in NYC area, underworld efforts to take over Joint Council; com counsel Kennedy comments
USSR offers long-term loons for econ development, ECAFE conf, Bangkok
container of yeast to be put in 1 or more satellites to determine space travel effect on simple form of life
NYS Sen (Mitchell) com hearings on Mitchell bill; Wagner, Patterson warn bill could force fare rise, '58, unless substantially rewritten; urge bill free NYCTA from any obligation to reopen contract talks until present pacts with TWU and Motor Coach union expire, '60; other proposed changes; Mitchell comments; MBA, other craft unions back bill; TWU counsel Goldberg, Motor Coach union, M Iushewitz opposed
US statement denouncing USSR charges; Dulles leaves US for Council meeting; issues statement
1958Sergey Litvinov, Russian hammer thrower (died 2018)[†]
Sergey Nikolaevich Litvinov was a Russian hammer thrower and athletics coach. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics, missing the 1984 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet boycott, and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively. He also won two world titles, in 1983 and 1987. After retiring from competitions he coached elite hammer throwers including Ivan Tsikhan and his son Sergey.
1958After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.[†]
The 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 23 January 1958, when the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez was overthrown.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]