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Levitt urges giving employes higher pensions and vested right in them even after leaving service
Amb Lodge says it is surprising, in light of USSR attitude, that" '58 UN Assembly session did not actually harm peace cause
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- President Eisenhower will give Republican Congressional leaders a look at his legislative program tomorrow, but indications today were that some key sections were incomplete.
Revolt in Rif area feared if Govt authority is not re-estab soon; rural population reptdly on strike; unrest linked to demand for return of exiled Rif leader Abd el Krim; Govt restoration to Abd el Krim of some property confiscated during French protectorate seen sign King is aware of his role; Royal comm denies link to unrest
purge believed to have crippled pro-Nasser movement but strengthened Communists
1958Carlo J. Caparas, Filipino director and producer[†]
Carlo Magno Jose Caparas was a Filipino comic strip creator and writer-turned film director and producer. He is best known for creating such Filipino superheroes and comic book characters as Panday, Bakekang, Totoy Bato, Joaquin Bordado, Kamagong, Kamandag, Elias Paniki, Tasya Fantasya, and Gagambino among others. He was also known as the writer-director of numerous sensationalist "massacre" films such as The Myrna Diones Story, The Maggie dela Riva Story and Lipa "Arandia" Massacre.
1958Richard Kastle, American classical pianist[†]
Richard Kastle is an American classical pianist and composer.
1958Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)[†]
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum mechanics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle". The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter. To preserve the conservation of energy in beta decay, he posited the existence of a small neutral particle, dubbed the neutrino by Enrico Fermi. The neutrino was detected in 1956.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]