Saturday, April 5, 1958

From the day

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The Headlines

Plea to U. N. Balked After Week-Long March to City; 'PEACE WALKERS' CONVERGE AT U. N.

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Tequila

The Champs

#1 at the box office

The Bridge on the River Kwai earned nearly $600,000 from the cities sampled.

The must-have

Hula Hoop

On This Day

• Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Thomas Hobbes (1588)
• Bette Davis (1908)
• Gregory Peck (1916)
• Pope Urban VIII (1568)
• Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (1947)

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Tech Check

Integrated Circuit (Microchip), Stereo Records & Modem.

Cost of Living (1950)