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over 1/4 million at final session; illus; record conv gathering for NYC; Knorr s on impending end of world; repeats attack on Prots and RCs
NYC Planning Comm repts 375,000 units in 17county NY-NJ area occupied by non-whites in '56, 50% rise since '50; little new housing included; only 32,000 units built since '50; total 4,631,000 units in area, 17% over '50; Comm finds deterioration in quality, mounting rents and 1-family house values, other figures
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Aug. 3 -- The United States was expected to start consultations here tomorrow on arrangements for a summit meeting of the Security Council on the Middle East.
Kefauver pub lr he sent Eisenhower for subcom urging Pres action; economists less concerned about effect on consumer
Khrushchev calls for summit conf on Mideast, withdrawal of US and Brit troops, communique after 4-day conf with Chmn Mao Tse-tung, Peiping; illus
1958Allison Hedge Coke, American-Canadian poet and academic[†]
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American poet and editor. Her debut book, Dog Road Woman, won the American Book Award and was the first finalist of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Diane DeCora Award. Since then, she has written five more books and edited eight anthologies. She is known for addressing issues of culture, prejudice, rights, the environment, peace, violence, abuse, and labor in her poetry and other creative works.
1958Mary Decker, American runner[†]
Mary Teresa Slaney is an American retired middle-distance and long-distance runner. During her career, she won gold medals in the 1500 meters and 3000 meters at the 1983 World Championships and was the world-record holder in the mile, 5000 meters and 10,000 meters. In total, she set 17 official and unofficial world records, and she was the first woman to break 4:20 for the mile. She also set 36 U.S. national records at distances ranging from 800 meters to 10,000 meters, and has held the U.S. record in the 2000 meters and 3000 meters since the early 1980s, while her 1500 meters record stood for 32 years and her mile record stood for 38 years. In 2003, she was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. She was retroactively banned for two years from June 1996 for a doping violation for a high testosterone to epitestosterone ratio.
1958Silvan Shalom, Tunisian-Israeli sergeant and politician, 30th Deputy Prime Minister of Israel[†]
Zion Silvan Shalom is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1992 and 2015. He held several prominent ministerial positions, including Vice Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. He resigned on 24 December 2015 following allegations of sexual harassment. Later on, the Attorney-General closed this investigation and said these claims were unsubstantiated.
1958Brian Voss, American bowler[†]
Brian Voss in Cornelius, North Carolina, is a professional ten-pin bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association since 1982. The right-hander owns 25 PBA Tour titles, including one major championship, plus two titles on the PBA50 Tour and one PBA60 event title. He was inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 1994 and the USBC Hall of Fame in 2007.
1958Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (born 1883)[†]
Ethel Campbell Louise Anderson was an early twentieth century Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciated for her witty and ironic stories. Anderson has been described as "a high-profile author, artist, art commentator and emissary for modernism".
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]