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importation of Amer jukeboxes, reopening of coffee houses and specialty shops seen part of regime's effort to create atmosphere of normalcy
de Gaulle and Cabinet reptd seeking way to heal split; reptdly favor granting concessions to 11 nations outside common mkt; French, Brit positions analyzed
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18--President Eisenhower wrote a letter to the man who will be President of the United States fourteen years from now asking that he demonstrate "the gratitude of the nation" by appointing the infant son of an Air Force test pilot to the Air Force Academy.
freighter feared lost in storm, Lake Mich
1958Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (died 2007)[†]
Isabella Blow was an English magazine editor. She was mentor to Philip Treacy, and is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl, and fashion designer Alexander McQueen, beginning when she bought the entirety of his graduate show inspired by Jack the Ripper.
1958Algirdas Butkevičius, Lithuanian sergeant and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Lithuania[†]
Algirdas Butkevičius is a Lithuanian politician and was Prime Minister of Lithuania, serving between 2012 and 2016. He also served as the Minister of Finance from 2004 to 2005 and the Minister of Transport and Communications from 2006 to 2008. He led the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania from 2009 to 2017.
1958Terrence C. Carson, American actor and singer[†]
Terrence "T.C." Carson is an American actor, voice artist, and singer, known for his performances across television, film, stage, and video games. He is best known for portraying Kyle Barker on the Fox sitcom, Living Single, and is the original voice of Kratos in the God of War video game series, playing the role from 2005 to 2013. Additionally, Carson lent his voice to Mace Windu in various Star Wars media, including Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
1958Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian, author, and academic[†]
Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor. She is currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and a professor of history in the university's Faculty of Arts & Sciences. She is formerly the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Gordon-Reed is noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children.
1958Charlie Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Charles Stuart Kaufman is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. Having first come to prominence for writing Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), he went on to direct films based on his own screenplays: Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). In 2020, he released a novel, Antkind.
1958Michael Wilbon, American sportscaster and journalist[†]
Michael Wilbon is an American commentator for ESPN and former sportswriter and columnist for The Washington Post. He is an analyst for ESPN and has co-hosted Pardon the Interruption on ESPN since 2001.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]