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laundry operators balk at linking Hoffa to $17,500 extortion to avert '49 strike; Hoffa testifies; witnesses revise previous sworn statements
Kheel rules NYCTA may run BMT and IND trains with 1 instead of 2 conductors, $2.7-million yrly saving seen when plan is extended to IRT; 225 temporary employes to be dropped, 318 2d-place conductors shifted to other work; M Guinan comments
Asst Atty Gen Hansen finds cos act in concert on rises but holds lack of evidence bars anti-trust action, subcom; Kefauver queries identical rises at same time by all cos when each has different costs
Wagner says he will not seek US Sen nomination, press conf on return from Calif
Eisenhower agrees to special UN Assembly meeting on Mideast; text
1958Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player[†]
William Randall DeBarge is an American R&B/soul singer and bass guitarist, best known for being one of the original members of the popular Motown singing family group DeBarge. Randy is also known for singing co-lead and penning lyrics with brother El on the group's first hit, "I Like It" (1982).
1958Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile.[†]
In 1948, on the initiative of Chilean President Gabriel González Videla, the Chilean National Congress enacted the Permanent Defense of Democracy Law, referred to by many as the Damned Law, which outlawed the Communist Party of Chile and banned 26,650 persons from the electoral lists.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]