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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Tuesday, Oct. 21 -- The Chinese Communists resumed their shelling of the Quemoy area yesterday while Secretary of State Dulles was flying here to discuss the Taiwan Strait situation with President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China.
Wagner appts com to study off-track betting plan; comments
Estimate Bd bars proposals to build tunnel or Bklyn-Jersey City span (Liberty Bridge) as substitutes; defers action on Bay Ridge route; Moses warns that Fed and state govts may bar funds for 2 related projects if span is dropped; Wagner comments
NY Times team rept on election outlook; illus; map; pol facts
Council of Econ Advisers sees $11-billion rise in GNP annual rate to $440 billion, 3d qr; with 72% of recession dip wiped out; details
1958Andre Geim, Russian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Sir Andre Konstantin Geim is a Russian-born Dutch–British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]