November 19, 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 — November 19, 1958
NY Times Headlines — Week of November 19, 1958
Pentagon Begins Trimming Forces; Draft Is Also Cut; Mcelroy Orders Secretaries To Speed Long-Delayed Reductions Of 70,000 Army'S Share Is 31,793 Selective Service Call For January Put At 9,000, Lowest Since 1957 Pentagon Begins Trimming Forces
Military Plans Prepared At Pentagon For Study By Paris And London; U. S. Weighs Plans To Act In Berlin
18-Nation Group On Outer Space Endorsed In U. N.; Political Committee Ignores Soviet Threat To Boycott Study Of Peaceful Uses 18-Nation Group On Space Backed
President Sets Up Foreign Aid Panel For A New Study; Asks 9 To Make Nonpartisan 'Appraisal' As A Guide To Defense Of Free World Draper Group'S Leader Eisenhower Urges Survey To Assess Value Of Military And Economic Projects President Sets Up Foreign Aid Study
World Events — November 1958
Time Person of the Year — 1958
On the radio
Billboard Charts — November 19, 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 — November 19, 1958
On the field
Sports Champions — November 19, 1958
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