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Wallace threatens to jail any Comm agent who tries to get possession of files; Comm chmn Hannah confs with Pres Eisenhower
Dr Dousmanis, others at RCA Princeton Labs rept on cyclotron resonance experiments believed to show for 1st time existence of electrons behaving as though they had negative mass or could fall up; presence of electrons detected by dips in absorption pattern; germanium crystals used; diagram; Prof Townes comments
US Army pilot Lt Mackin held after parachuting into E Ger from crippled liaison craft on Frankfurt-Grafenwoehr flight; E Ger charges border violations by several NATO craft near Sonneberg; seen likely to use Mackin case for new effort to coerce US into establishing diplomatic ties
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traders concerned over competition of Chinese products priced 5-30% below Hong Kong goods or other imports; illus; about 50% of Chinese goods re-exported; Chinese exch earnings, '58, seen over $200 million; Chinese goods, Oct, total 30% of Hong Kong imports; other data
1958Nick Park, English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Nicholas Wulstan Park is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]