September 16, 1958
That fall of 1958, gas ran $0.31 a gallon and Eisenhower was in the White House — the United States was pressing the Soviet Union to return to talks over Germany and the broader tensions dividing East from West. On movie screens, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was drawing big crowds, and on the bestseller lists, Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" was the novel Americans were reading that season. The New York Yankees took the World Series over the Milwaukee Braves, and on September 12, Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby invented the first integrated circuit, a development that would quietly reshape every corner of modern life.
On the cover
Magazine Covers — September 16, 1958
NY Times Headlines — Week of September 16, 1958
U. N. Elects Malik Assembly Head Vote Is 45 To 31; Lebanese Foreign Minister Defeats Sudanese Rival Backed By Arab Bloc Czech Withdraws Nam New Leader Pledges To Act In Interests Of World -Committee Heads Chosen Assembly Elects Malik President
Dulles Hopeful Talks In Warsaw Will Yield Truce; Tells U.N. Assembly He Also Looks To Final Settlement Of All Taiwan Claims Gromyko Asks U.S. Exit Russian Says 'Liberation' Of Nationalist Island By Peiping Is Inevitable Dulles Hopeful On Warsaw Talk
U. S. Will Rebut Moscow Charges In Taiwan Crisis; Sharp Retort To Khrushchev Planned -- Issue May Soon Be Carried To The U. N. Soviet Gets Note Back President Talks At Newport With Lloyd And Caccia On Far Eastern Situation U. S. Will Rebut Moscow Charges
World Events — September 1958
Time Person of the Year — 1958
On the radio
Billboard Charts — September 16, 1958
Grammy Awards
On the bookshelf
On the television
Nielsen Top 10 — 1958–59 Season
Emmy Winners — 1958
At the movies
Box Office & Oscar Winners — September 16, 1958
On the field
Sports Champions — September 16, 1958
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