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M A Hutcheson refusal to testify on his and Carpenters Brotherhood role in hwy scandal prompts AFL-CIO to move against alleged corruption in union
Planning Comm repts depts ask $1,095,316,830 for '59, triple amt NYC can afford; Felt comments
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Congress starts a home-stretch drive to adjourn this week. Whether it will make it appears to rest largely with the Senate.
Met Fair Rent Com chmn Williams urges community action on shortage of low-income housing; cites influx of low-Income families
Cairo broadcasts indicate Kuwait and Aden may be Nasser's next targets; map
1958Didier Auriol, French race car driver[†]
Didier Auriol is a French former rally driver. Born in Montpellier and initially an ambulance driver, he competed in the World Rally Championship throughout the 1990s. He became World Rally Champion in 1994, the first driver from his country to do so. He was a factory candidate for Lancia, Toyota and Peugeot among others, before losing his seat at Škoda at the end of 2003. His sister Nadine was also involved in rallying as a co-driver, while his brother Gerrard was also a former rally driver.
1958Madeleine Stowe, American actress[†]
Madeleine Stowe is an American actress. She appeared mostly on television before her role in the 1987 crime-comedy film Stakeout. She went on to star in the films Revenge (1990), Unlawful Entry (1992), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Blink (1993), 12 Monkeys (1995), The General's Daughter (1999), and We Were Soldiers (2002). For her role in the 1993 independent film Short Cuts, she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1958Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.[†]
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin, where he met his wife, Véra Nabokov. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States, where he began writing in English. Trilingual in Russian, English, and French, Nabokov became a U.S. citizen in 1945 and lived mostly on the East Coast before returning to Europe in 1961, where he settled in Montreux, Switzerland.
1958Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so, placing first among the 39 competitors.[†]
Brojen Das was a Bangladeshi swimmer, who was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel, and the first person to cross it six times.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]