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H S Truman says decision to intervene was his most difficult one as Pres, TV int
Truman defends use of A-bomb, TV int
The political and medical questions raised by the growing reservoir of radioactive dust in the upper air are almost as universal as the fall-out that it produces.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- President Eisenhower received another letter from Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin today discussing a possible heads-of-government meeting between East and West.
unnamed underground labor leader says rebels next step is indus sabotage, int; says US indus will not be immune in Castro drive to prevent June 1 elections; charges Batista will rig elections to retain power; gen strike planned; sabotage effectiveness to date assessed; minor skirmishes reptd from Oriente
1958Joe F. Edwards, Jr., American commander, pilot, and astronaut[†]
Joe Frank Edwards Jr., , is an American aerospace engineer, former naval officer, aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut.
1958Greg Mankiw, American economist and academic[†]
Nicholas Gregory Mankiw is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is best known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics.
1958Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.[†]
The Benelux Union or Benelux is a politico-economic union, alliance and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The name is a portmanteau formed from joining the first few letters of each country's name and was first used to name the customs agreement that initiated the union. It is now used more generally to refer to the geographic, economic, and cultural grouping of the three countries.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]