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Treas, Budget Bur rept $2,813,388,661 deficit, fiscal '58; recession linked; spending totaled $71,896,545,201, revenues $69,083,156,540
ss, UN Security Council, on Mideast crisis
Raab and party in Moscow; met by Premier Khrushchev
WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Secretary of State Dulles is expected to fly to London late this week for a meeting of the Council of the Baghdad Pact nations, beginning next Monday. His purpose is understood to be twofold:
Abbas repts threat on life; guarded; fails to attend Security Council session; illus; Hammarskjold distributes to Council data on conflicting claims on who should represent Iraq
1958Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach[†]
Tatsunori Hara is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder and manager. He played 15 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants, and also spent 17 seasons as the club's manager.
1958David Von Erich, American wrestler (died 1984)[†]
David Alan Adkisson was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name David Von Erich. A member of the Von Erich family, Von Erich is best known for his appearances with World Class Championship Wrestling, the Dallas, Texas-based professional wrestling promotion owned by his father, Fritz Von Erich.
1958Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and author (born 1895)[†]
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko was a Soviet and Russian writer and satirist.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]