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'58-59 term opens; Assoc Justice Frankfurter files concurrent opinion in Little Rock school integration case; 53 attys admitted to Ct bar
Appeals Ct (Johnsen, Matthes, Woodrough) extends temporary restraining order against leasing schools to Oct 15,when it will hold hearing on issues in Miller Sept 26 ruling; Johnsen lists issues; School Bd atty Butler argues against enjoining leases on grounds that Bd has no hope of reopening schools 'for some time' while Corp might do so
NY wins 5th game, 7-0
Under Sec Herter says US will stop escorts if Communists halt fire permanently; welcomes cease-fire offer; text; US wary; GB hails cease-fire
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 7 -- Pope Pius XII passed a quiet night and was reported steadily improving this morning.
1958The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.[†]
The 1958 Pakistani military coup was the first military coup in Pakistan that took place on 27 October 1958. It resulted in the toppling of Iskander Ali Mirza, the president of Pakistan, by Muhammad Ayub Khan, the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army.
1958The U.S. crewed space-flight project is renamed to Project Mercury.[†]
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted 20 uncrewed developmental flights, and six successful flights by astronauts. The program, which took its name from Roman mythology, cost $2.76 billion. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]