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WASHINGTON, April 15 -Secretary of State Dulles accused the Soviet Union today of endangering peace by prostituting diplomacy for purposes of propaganda.
Giants and Dodgers open season, San Francisco, 1st regular-season major league game in Calif; illus
Eisenhower confs with Repub Cong leaders on $1.8-billion hwy bill; Sen Knowland comments
Fire kills workman, injures 3 visitors, 28 firemen; damages 4 paintings, destroys 2 by Monet; illus; art loss put at under $300,000; chmn N A Rockefeller lauds firemen; expects museum to reopen in few days
Dinner; D Acheson s
1958Tim Flach, English photographer and director[†]
Tim Flach is a British photographer who specialises in studio photography of animals. He has published several books of photographs.
1958Ulf Wakenius, Swedish guitarist[†]
Ulf Karl Erik Wakenius is a Swedish jazz guitarist, known as a member of Oscar Peterson's last quartet from 1997. He was also a member of the Ray Brown trio.
1958Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (born 1920)[†]
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, Franklin's contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely unrecognised during her life, for which Franklin has been variously referred to as the "wronged heroine", the "dark lady of DNA", the "forgotten heroine", a "feminist icon", and the "Sylvia Plath of molecular biology".
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]