May 3, 1958
Gas cost $0.31 a gallon in the spring of 1958, and the Dow Jones stood at 584 — a tense Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union dominated the headlines, as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles publicly rejected Soviet terms for a summit meeting, warning that the United States would negotiate only from a position of strength. On the cultural front, "April Love" by Pat Boone held the top spot on the charts, and "The Bridge on the River Kwai" was packing movie theaters across the country. The St. Louis Hawks had just defeated the Boston Celtics to claim the NBA championship, while earlier that spring, on March 2nd, British explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs and his team completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, traveling by snowcat and dogsled through 99 days of polar conditions to reach the other side of the continent.
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Magazine Covers — May 3, 1958
NY Times Headlines — Week of May 3, 1958
South'S Cities Unify Bias-Bombing Fight; Cities Join In War On Bias Bombings
President Bids 11 Nations Join In Antarctic Treaty To Assure Peaceful Use; Parley Is Asked
Congress Faces Clash On Job Aid And Labor Curbs; Senate Democrats To Battle For Greater Help To Idle Than House Bill Gives Seek Direct U. S. Grant Hearing On Taft-Hartley Act To Stir Fight On G.O.P. Bid For Union Controls Congress Faces Clash On Job Aid
Nato Not To Let Procedures Bar Summit Parley; 15 Foreign Ministers Agree Preparatory Difficulties Should Not Block Talk Soviet Aim Questioned Dulles, Lloyd And Others Ask Whether Moscow Wants Top-Level Conference Nato Discounts Procedure Snags
Soviet Again Asks Summit Talk Soon; Note 'Regrets' Ban By West On Polish, Czech Roles In Preliminary Sessions Soviet Again Asks Summit Talk Soon
Peiping Demands U. N. Leave Korea; Peiping Demands U. N. Remove All The Troops It Has In Korea
World Events — May 1958
Time Person of the Year — 1958
On the radio
Billboard Charts — May 3, 1958
Grammy Awards
On the bookshelf
On the television
Nielsen Top 10 — 1957–58 Season
Emmy Winners — 1958
At the movies
Box Office & Oscar Winners — May 3, 1958
On the field
Sports Champions — May 3, 1958
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