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Eisenhower bids Negroes be patient, depend on more and better educ instead of 'simply on letter of law' to gain rights, s, Natl Newspaper Publishers Assn; Assn pres Walker finds Negro gains have not kept pace with rest of US
Asst Sec Kearns says drastic changes in bill may bring veto; confs with House com still deadlocked; Dems seek to pacify protectionists
armed rebellion erupts, Beirut; 7-10 reptd killed; natl state of alert declared; USIA Beirut library sacked; curfew set; Tripoli riots continue; pipeline to Tripoli cut; Belgian Consul-Gen-designate to Syria L de San seized at Syrian border with carload of arms; Opposition leaders S Salaam, H Pharaon and A Yafi reptd held after giving Chamoun ultimatum to resign or face civil war; map
Admr Cole asks $4-billion emergency increase in FHA mortgage-ins authority to cope with rise in applications, Sen subcom; illus; Home Bldrs Assn pres Severin optimistic on outlook, news conf
Maj Gen E O'Neill chooses World War II unknown soldier from Eur-African theater for Arlington burial, Epinal, France; ceremony illus
1958During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, the US Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.[†]
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas. Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range. The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep 2,200-meter-high (7,200-foot) mountain range, Cerro El Ávila; to the south there are more hills and mountains. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of almost 5 million inhabitants.
1958May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.[†]
Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008 and an estimated 3,004,130 residents in 2025 in an area of 1,190 square kilometres (460 sq mi), Algiers is the largest city in Algeria, the third largest city on the Mediterranean, sixth in the Arab World, and 11th in Africa. Located in the north-central portion of the country, it extends along the Bay of Algiers surrounded by the Mitidja Plain and major mountain ranges. Its favorable location made it the center of Ottoman and French cultural, political, and architectural influences for the region, shaping it to be the diverse metropolis it is today.
1958Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.[†]
Frederick Benjamin Carlin was an Australian adventurer who was the first person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle. Born in Northam, Western Australia, Carlin attended Guildford Grammar School in Perth, and later studied mining engineering at the Kalgoorlie School of Mines. After qualifying as an engineer, he worked on the Goldfields before emigrating to China in 1939 to work in a British coal mine. In World War II, Carlin was posted to the Indian Army Corps of Engineers, serving in India, Italy, and throughout the Middle East. After his discharge from service in 1946, he emigrated to the United States with his American wife, Elinore.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]