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TORONTO -- Canada's first all-paved transcontinental highway is nearing completion. For vacationing motorists looking for new scenery on the east-west trek across North America, the Trans-Canada Highway offers an alternate route with plenty of good fishing and camera shots along the way.
Papp on summer plans; needs $50,000; repts Pks Dept builds new stage, Central Pk
rise in Calif champagne sales discussed; P Masson Vineyards plans 'world's largest champagne cellar,' Saratoga area
Green lawns and plane trees. Shaded walks and playgrounds. Light and space. Fireproof apartments that are, if not luxurious, at least purposeful. This is low-rent public housing.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 -- Dick Farrell, who saved a game for Curt Simmons earlier this week, did it again today. He took over in the ninth inning and halted a San Francisco Giant rally as the Philadelphia Phillies posted a 4-2 victory.
1958Keith Haring, American painter (died 1990)[†]
Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.
1958Caroline Spelman, English politician, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs[†]
Dame Caroline Alice Spelman is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden in the West Midlands from 1997 to 2019. From May 2010 to September 2012 she was the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in David Cameron's coalition cabinet, and was sworn as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]