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Western Big 3 urge USSR resume talks aimed at summit conf, notes
News conf; says US favors reducing Nationalist forces on Quemoy if Chinese Communists stop bombardment
Judge Leibowitz extends Bklyn grand jury term to probe 'misuse' of welfare funds; urges caution
US AEC repts USSR resumes nuclear tests; State Dept sees no effect, if they end by Oct 31, on scheduled Geneva conf on tests ban; sees them confirming that suspension was for propaganda
US Sen Green warns that Adm decision to defend Quemoy and Matsu may involve US wrongly and needlessly in war without allies, lr to Eisenhower; sends copies to Sen Foreign Relations Com and Sen Johnson; details criticism, s, Providence; Sen Bridges, other Repubs defend Adm; Sens Aiken, Morse, Humphrey, Kennedy comment
1958Martin Cooper, English saxophonist, composer, and painter[†]
Martin Cooper is an English painter and a musician. He is the secondary keyboardist and occasional saxophonist for the band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, whom he first joined in 1980.
1958Masato Nakamura, Japanese bass player and producer[†]
Masato Nakamura is a Japanese musician, bass guitarist, and record producer. He is a member of the J-pop band Dreams Come True, which was formed in 1988 and went on to sell over 50 million CDs. He also composed the soundtracks for the video games Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992).
1958Robert Falk, Russian painter and educator (born 1886)[†]
Robert Rafailovich Falk was a Russian and Soviet avant-garde painter.
1958The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.[†]
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency that was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958, the agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel were transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NACA is an initialism, pronounced as individual letters rather than as a whole word, as was NASA during the early years after being established.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]