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Pays farewell call on Vice Pres Nixon; int; illus
Assoc Elec Industries repts achieving neutrons from hot plasma pinched at 4 million degrees for a few millionths of sec; rept, pub in Nature, was among papers AEC distributed jointly with Atomic Energy Auth; Dr Ware hopes for temperatures of 10-12 million degrees within mos, 30-40 million degrees by end of '58; expectations held above anything voiced officially in US or GB; Ware describes Sceptre 3, $28,000 glass-walled aluminum ring used in experiments; warns of uncertainty that neutrons observed were achieved by nuclear fusion; fusion apparatus at Harwell illus
CAB grants 6.6% emergency fare rise pending disposition of bid for 20% rise; Amer Air Transport Assn calls rise inadequate
Atomic Energy Auth issues jointly with US AEC rept on research gains; sees many major problems still unsolved, need for further research to establish definitely whether controlled reaction has been achieved; papers seen dispelling impression that GB scored breakthrough and actually created reaction; Dr Ruark (US) notes GB, US take different courses; Strauss again denies barring pub of any Brit papers; says certain comparative observations pub recently about Brit, US gains are now proved misleading; rept shows large numbers of neutrons detected, that temperatures up to 5 million degrees centigrade have been produced for 2 to 5 thousandths of a sec with ZETA; Dr Spitzer says deuterium nuclei must be accelerated to observed temperatures by 'some unknown process,'
1958Franco Pancheri, Italian footballer and manager[†]
Franco Pancheri is an Italian professional football coach and former player.
1958Cemil Topuzlu, Turkish surgeon and politician, Mayor of Istanbul (born 1866)[†]
Professor Cemil Topuzlu, also known as Cemil Pasha, was a Turkish social democratic politician who served two terms as mayor of Istanbul. During his time in office he oversaw major developments in the city, including the creation of Gülhane Park.
1958Robert R. Young, American businessman and financier (born 1897)[†]
Robert Ralph Young was an American financier and industrialist. He is best known for leading the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the New York Central Railroad during and after World War II. He was a brother-in-law of the famous western painter, Georgia O'Keeffe.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]