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UAW and Amer Motors sign 2-yr wage-freeze contract for Kelvinator Grand Rapids, Mich, plant; co reptdly will shift Detroit and Peoria operations to Grand Rapids; Mechanics Educ Soc, Detroit, scores contract
claims off 13,000, wk, to 406,500; new claims at 45,000
NAACP asks Whittaker either to vacate stay or stay Lemley decision or both, Marshall appeal; Whittaker notifies School Bd he must have any papers opposing request by Aug 28; says motion to reverse stay can be ruled on by 1 justice; Mrs Bates accompanies 6 Negroes from Central HS to Washington; they meet Marshall
Eisenhower photo printed on Arabic-script leaf-lets dropped in Lebanon by US planes explaining US troops presence
MOSCOW, Aug. 22 -- The Soviet Government reported President Eisenhower's proposal for an agreement to ban nuclear weapons tests with unusual speed tonight.
1958Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player and manager[†]
Julio César Franco Robles is a Dominican former professional baseball infielder and coach. He spent most of his playing career in Major League Baseball (MLB), entering the major leagues in 1982 and last appearing in 2007, at which time he was the oldest active big league player. During that stretch, Franco also spent two seasons playing in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and one season playing in the KBO.
1958Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.[†]
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued intermittently from 1 August 1927 until Communist victory resulted in their total control over mainland China on 7 December 1949.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]