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WEST POINT, N. Y., Nov. 15 -- Army's football team indicated to a sell-out crowd of 27,250 today that it was prepared for Navy two weeks hence. Led by the brilliant play of Capt. Pete Dawkins, who scored three touchdowns, the cadets routed a determined Villanova squad, 26 -- 0.
"FELLOW-CITIZENS, we cannot escape history," Abraham Lincoln warned in 1862. "The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." A good deal of current Civil War history Lincoln doubtless would be glad to escape, but not Shelby Foote's.
The private eye is growing up. No longer is he a romantic type, snaring bottles, blondes and bandits in the less than twenty-eight minutes a half-hour television show allots for its mayhem.
Recovery pace apparently slowing down, but Washington economists discount signs; auto slump effects seen temporary; other econ factors discussed
The forty-fifth National Foreign Trade Convention opens here tomorrow amid mounting problems affecting world commerce and economic development.
1958Marg Helgenberger, American actress[†]
Mary Margaret Helgenberger is an American actress. She began her career in the early 1980s and first came to attention for playing the role of Siobhan Ryan on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope from 1982 to 1986. She is best known for her role as Catherine Willows in the CBS police procedural drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–13), the subsequent television film Immortality (2015), and the second and third seasons of the sequel series CSI: Vegas (2022–2024). Helgenberger is also known for playing the role of K.C. Koloski in the ABC drama China Beach (1988–91), which earned her the 1990 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She is also known for roles in the TV series Under the Dome and Intelligence, and the films Species (1995), Species II (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), and Mr. Brooks (2007).
1958Boris Krivokapić, Serbian author and academic[†]
Boris Krivokapić is a full professor of Public International Law as well as of Human Rights with the University Union - Nikola Tesla in Belgrade, and professor at Law School of the Samara National Research University "S. P. Korolev".
1958National Airlines Flight 967 explodes in mid-air over the Gulf of Mexico, killing all 42 aboard.[†]
National Airlines Flight 967, registration N4891C, was a Douglas DC-7B aircraft that disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico en route from Tampa, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 16, 1959. All 42 on board were presumed killed in the incident.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]