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BIG SPRING, Tex., April 5 -- Dave Sime of Duke led all the way today in beating Bobby Morrow, Abilene Christian College's Olympic sprint champion, in a wind-blown 100-yard dash that settled theirs three-year rivalry. Sime, timed in 9.6 seconds, won by a foot and a half.
WHEN Shaw's "Back to Methuselah" was produced in full in the Twenties -- in New York, Birmingham and London -- some groans were mingled with the applause. Arnold Bennett uttered a few notable lamentations.
Khrushchev illus meeting US Charge d'Affaires Ackerson, Budapest
ind producers continued fight for mandatory curbs despite Adm's tightening of voluntary controls discussed; they feel voluntary program has too many loopholes
Soviet Russia's big propaganda effort last week in announcing suspension of nuclear arms tests is being matched, less dramatically, in the economic field.
1958Graeme Base, Australian author and illustrator[†]
Graeme Rowland Base is a British-Australian author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989.
1958Capital Airlines Flight 67 crashes in Tittabawassee Township, Michigan, near Freeland Tri-City Airport, killing 47.[†]
Capital Airlines Flight 67 was a domestic scheduled U.S. passenger flight operated by Capital Airlines which crashed on final approach to Freeland, Michigan, during a severe snowstorm on April 6, 1958, killing all 47 people on board. The flight was en route from Flint-Bishop Airport to the Freeland-Tri City Airport when it crashed. Flight 67 was the first of four fatal crashes in the space of two years involving Capital Airlines Vickers Viscounts; the others were Flight 300, Flight 75, and Flight 20.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]