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Ala Metallurgical Corp plans $3.5-million, 6,000-ton initial capacity plant, Selma, Ala; map; 1st privately-owned plant to be build since '27
comment on USSR plan and Western reaction
SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 29 -- Young Earl Bucholz of St. Louis made a game try at beating Ashley Cooper of Australia, the world's leading amateur tennis player, but was beaten, 6 -- 0, 6 -- 1, 7 -- 9, 6 -- 2, today in the final of the New South Wales tournament.
With a new legislative season approaching, a major shift has occurred in the forces seeking changes in the New York State branch banking pattern.
Thousands of bright, new products are going to school. Some will be graduated with flying colors; many will flunk out and disappear into limbo. The schools actually are testing centers or laboratories where products of all kinds undergo rigorous examination before being placed on the market. Those that fail to meet various quality requirements are scrapped.
1958Stacey Q, American pop singer-songwriter, dancer and actress[†]
Stacey Lynn Swain, known by her stage name Stacey Q, is an American pop singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Her best-known single, "Two of Hearts", released in 1986, reached number one in Canada, number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the top ten in five other countries.
1958Hubert Wilkins, Australian pilot, ornithologist, geographer, and explorer (born 1888)[†]
Sir George Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar, commonly referred to as Captain Wilkins, was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer. He was awarded the Military Cross after he assumed command of a group of American soldiers who had lost their officers during the Battle of the Hindenburg Line, and became the only official Australian photographer from any war to receive a combat medal. He narrowly failed in an attempt to be the first to cross under the North Pole in a submarine, but was able to prove that submarines were capable of operating beneath the polar ice cap, thereby paving the way for future successful missions. The US Navy later took his ashes to the North Pole aboard the submarine USS Skate on 17 March 1959.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]