Friday, December 5, 1958

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The Headlines

TRAVIA IS ELECTED ASSEMBLY LEADER; Democratic Minority Picks Brooklyn Legislator on Advice of Sharkey

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Tom Dooley

The Kingston Trio

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Hula Hoop

On This Day

• The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)

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• Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Walt Disney (1901)
• Martin Van Buren (1782)
• Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927)
• Werner Heisenberg (1901)
• Józef Piłsudski (1867)

Slang

Tech Check

Integrated Circuit (Microchip), Stereo Records & Modem.

Cost of Living (1950)