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ends feud with him; defers action on Harlem leaders
tours Newark, Geneva, Seneca Falls, Waterloo, Auburn; scores Harriman on crime, ss Cortland and Ithaca
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Appeals Ct Judge Stewart apptd successor; is Repub and youngest (43) to serve since Justice Douglas apptmt in '39; recess apptmt backed by Sen Bricker and Amer Bar Assn; Sen approval expected
el Kassem smashes planned revolt by officers supporting Arif; Arif reptd under house arrest; US reaction
1958Steve Coll, American journalist and author[†]
Steve Coll is an American journalist, academic, and executive.
1958Bret Lott, American journalist, author, and academic[†]
Bret Lott is the New York Times author and professor of English at the College of Charleston. He is Crazyhorse magazine's nonfiction editor and leads a study abroad program every summer to Spoleto, Italy.
1958Ruffin McNeill, American football player and coach[†]
Ruffin Horne McNeill Jr. is an American football coach and former player who currently serves as the special assistant to the head coach at NC State University. He previously served as the assistant head coach and outside linebackers coach at the University of Oklahoma and the assistant head coach and defensive line coach at the University of Virginia. McNeill also served as the head coach of the East Carolina Pirates from 2010 to 2015. Before being named head coach of the Pirates, McNeill served the Texas Tech Red Raiders as an interim head coach, assistant head coach, special teams coordinator, and linebackers coach. On December 28, 2009, he was named interim head coach of the Red Raiders following the suspension and later firing of head coach Mike Leach. He served in the position until the hiring of Tommy Tuberville, who subsequently released him as defensive coordinator.
1958Ursula von der Leyen, Belgian-German physician and politician, Defense Minister of Germany, President of the European Commission[†]
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician, serving as president of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding positions in Angela Merkel's cabinet, most recently as Federal Minister for Defence. She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliated European political party, the European People's Party (EPP). On 7 March 2024, the EPP elected her as its Spitzenkandidat to lead the campaign for the 2024 European Parliament elections. She was re-elected to head the Commission in July 2024.
1958Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author and translator (born 1886)[†]
Ran Bosilek, born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov, was a Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]