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GE urges stiffer Govt curbs on heavy power equipment imports; holds natl security, not equipment mfg indus threatened
Urges USSR agree to start studying arms inspection methods, lr, to Premier Khrushchev
Mayor's (Preusse) com urges Estimate Bd accept revised Consol Edison offer to buy city's 3 plants for $123 million; sees no fare rise resulting; under new proposal, co would pay $82 million over 3 yrs, assume about $41 million worth of uncompleted modernization contracts, agree to protect rights of transferred employes; other terms; TWU scores plan; NYCTA, Mayor Wagner silent
Truman calls Dem race open, news conf, Yale U
some Teamsters hon pickets, refuse to deliver props and scenery; Teamsters, at later meeting, decide not to hon pickets until IBEW formally seeks Teamsters aid; strike effects on programs discussed; some individual members of Bldg Service Employes hon pickets
1958Nadey Hakim, British-Lebanese surgeon and sculptor[†]
Nadey S. Hakim FASMBS, is a British-Lebanese professor of transplantation surgery at Imperial College London and general surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic London. He is also a writer, musician and sculptor, known for kidney and pancreas transplantations, and being part of the surgical team that performed the world's first hand transplantation in 1998 and then the double arm transplantation in 2000.
1958Tony Sibson, English boxer[†]
Tony Sibson is a former professional boxer.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]