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US, Euratom sign accord to spur power output, share tech experience; US pledges $135-million loan and enriched uranium for 20 yrs to operate 6-8 reactors able to produce 1 million kws; Chmn McCone, Prof Medi, W W Butterworth comment; US gives 19,000-vol library to Euratom
3 Castro aides killed, 3 Govt aides hurt in gun battle in Vibora, Havana suburb; R Castro and group reptdly capture Alto Songo garrison near Santiago; F Castro denies responsibility for plane seizures; would cooperate with US in protection of its lives and interests
BALTIMORE, Nov. 8 -- Recovering splendidly from an early shock, Navy's football team struck solidly through the air and along the ground and walloped the University of Maryland, 40 to 14, at Memorial Stadium today.
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NYC 5-boro vote for Gov on Repub, Dem, Liberal lines was 2,333,585 of NYS total of 5,678,666, or 41% compared with 44.1%, '54; Upstate total rose from 55.9% to 59%; NYC loss was gained by Westchester, Rockland, Nassau, Suffolk Counties; Nassau had greatest single growth; graph on NYC, Upstate totals, '46-58; table compares NYC, nearby counties totals, '54 and '58
1958Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American educational reformer, social activist and author (born 1879)[†]
Dorothy Canfield Fisher was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. Her writing helped increase understanding of the Montessori method of child-rearing in the U.S.; she presided over the country's first adult education program; and her service as a member of the Book of the Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951 helped shape literary tastes in the U.S.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]