Tuesday, October 7, 1958

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The Headlines

JUSTICE DEPLORES ARKANSAS TACTICS; Frankfurter Files Concurring Opinion on Little Rock -- Court Opens Term

#1 on Your Hit Parade

It's All in the Game

Tommy Edwards

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Hula Hoop

On This Day

• The U.S. crewed space-flight project is renamed to Project Mercury.

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• The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Vladimir Putin (1952)
• Niels Bohr (1885)
• Heinrich Himmler (1900)
• Desmond Tutu (1931)
• Henry A. Wallace (1888)

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Tech Check

Integrated Circuit (Microchip), Stereo Records & Modem.

Cost of Living (1950)