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City Council unanimously asks Legis to amend transit law, permit subsidy; Harriman thinks 15¢ fare should be protected; silent on self-sustaining law
NASA Admr Glennan asks Army turn over scientists and facilities at Huntsville (Ala) Redstone Arsenal and Jet Propulsion Lab at Calif Tech Inst, Los Angeles; Army reptdly prepares direct protest to Eisenhower; Medaris on way to Washington; Army fears effect on mil program, loss of key scientists such as ex-Gers at Huntsville, including von Braun; NASA has already taken over 150-man USN Vanguard project lab; permitted by law to make levies on mil services until Dec 31 by Pres order without Cong approval, with approval thereafter
Gerosa repts '58 summer business good
Eisenhower attends pontifical requiem mass, St Matthew's Cathedral, Washington, DC; accompanied by Dulles, McCone and Luce; 4,000 hs students attend mass, St Patrick's, NYC
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1958Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author[†]
Stephen Clarke is a British author. He writes mainly about France. He published six novels featuring a British protagonist named Paul West.
1958Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (born 1907)[†]
Asaf Halet Çelebi was a Turkish mystical poet. Although not very widely known, due to his erudite and often foreign-influenced style, he is considered to be Turkey's first surrealist poet.
1958Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (born 1908)[†]
Frances Elizabeth Somerville Alexander was a British geologist, academic, and physicist, whose wartime work with radar and radio led to early developments in radio astronomy and whose post-war work on the geology of Singapore is considered a significant foundation to contemporary research. Alexander earned her PhD from Newnham College, Cambridge, and worked in Radio Direction Finding at Singapore Naval Base from 1938 to 1941. In January 1941, unable to return to Singapore from New Zealand, she became Head of Operations Research in New Zealand's Radio Development Lab, Wellington. In 1945, Alexander correctly interpreted that anomalous radar signals picked up on Norfolk Island were caused by the sun. This interpretation became pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy, making her one of the first women scientists to work in that field, albeit briefly.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]