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last-min peace efforts fail; Bd sets rally, Madison Sq Garden
Kefauver, 8 other Sens offer amendment; Knowland says it is acceptable to Adm; Kefauver says he agrees with Rogers reasoning that Vice Pres alone is responsible for deciding on inability if Pres does not, but says Const amendment is needed; Rayburn opposes Eisenhower-Nixon accord; other amendment sponsors are Dirksen, Langer, Jenner, Watkins, Hruska, Butler, Hennings, Johnston
Dir Smith denies specific charges of aid 'frivolity,' House Foreign Affairs Com testimony backing '59 request
Sen com approves key features of Dem bill; Repubs cut bill to $1.9 billion; Repub motion to raise interest rate on VA loans defeated, 8-7; Adm reprs at com hearing oppose major provisions of bill; Admr Cole testimony noted; Sparkman stresses bill's anti-recession aspects
1958Volodymyr Bezsonov, Ukrainian footballer and manager[†]
Volodymyr Vasylyovych Bezsonov is a Ukrainian football manager and former player who played for the former Soviet Union national football team. The most recent team he was managing was FC Dnipro in the Ukrainian Premier League.
1958Bob Forward, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Robert D. Forward is an American writer, producer, and director. He is the production director and president of his independent company, Detonation Films. Forward has been the writer of many animated television series, as well as a film, The Owl, based on his novel of the same name, which was republished in 2014.
1958Andy Gibb, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor (died 1988)[†]
Andrew Roy Gibb was an English singer and songwriter. He was the younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, musicians who had formed the Bee Gees during the late 1950s. Andy Gibb came to prominence in the late 1970s through the early 1980s with eight singles reaching the Top 20 of the US Hot 100, three of which went to No. 1: "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" (1977), "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" (1977), and "Shadow Dancing" (1978). In the early 1980s, he co-hosted the American music television series Solid Gold. He also performed in productions of The Pirates of Penzance and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Gibb would later have substance use problems and depression. He died on 10 March 1988 from complications due to drug abuse, aged 30.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]