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USSR proposes to negotiate 'modifications' on suspended $285-million credit; scores Yugoslav reply to suspension notice
Jets attack Druse rebels under Jumblatt 7 mi from Beirut Airport; maps; Govt forces rept main rebel supply line into Tripoli cut; R Karami repts Opposition discussed proposal for Shehab to take over interregnum govt
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2 Amers kidnapped by rebels from Nickel Prospecting Co plant, Nicaro, Oriente; Smith denies Guantanamo base is used by combat planes; rebel radio repts men seized at Moa Bay safe; Govt halts bomb patrols
Ct refuses emergency rev of lower ct order suspending Little Rock ps integration until Jan '61; Chief Justice Warren reads order in full
1958Jack Dyer Crouch II, American diplomat, United States Deputy National Security Advisor[†]
Jack Dyer Crouch II is an American diplomat and national security adviser. Since 2014, he has been president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the United Service Organizations (USO).
1958The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.[†]
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively.
1958Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.[†]
The St. Lawrence Seaway is a system of rivers, locks, canals and channels in Eastern Canada and Northern United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth, Minnesota, at the western end of Lake Superior. The seaway is named for the St. Lawrence River, which flows straight from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Gulf of St. Lawrence. Legally, the seaway extends from Montreal, Quebec, to Lake Erie, and includes the Welland Canal. Ships from the Atlantic Ocean are able to reach ports in all five of the Great Lakes via the Great Lakes Waterway.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]