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price war in small appliances breaks out, NYC and elsewhere as Sunbeam Corp follows GE in dropping fair trade; dept stores, discount houses crowded with comparison shoppers; small stores reptd unable to meet competition; some GE price cuts listed; store scenes illus
small rebel group raids Natl Bank annex, burns cancelled checks; aim to create chaos seen; other acts of sabotage, killings, arrests reptd; map
Repr Bennett demands Mack resignation, or removal; Eisenhower refuses to judge case, news conf; abruptly cuts off guestioning on Adams lrs to Chotiner; holds he has not heard of case; Whiteside testifies on ways he tried to help Mack financially; seen to have raised by $15,000 total income Mack got from businesses; Harris claims US criminal law violated in Miami case; Whiteside protests his reading of law
HLBB, in move to spur natl econ and increase funds for mortgages, authorizes its banks to lend member insts up to 5% of savings accts on 5-yr terms
1958Naas Botha, South African rugby player and sportscaster[†]
Hendrik Egnatius 'Naas' Botha is a South African former rugby union player who played as a Fly-half for Northern Transvaal, Rugby Rovigo and South Africa.
1958Maggie Hassan, American politician, 81st Governor of New Hampshire[†]
Margaret Wood Hassan is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator for New Hampshire since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Hassan was the 81st governor of New Hampshire, from 2013 to 2017.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]