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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $415.1 billion Federal spending: $68.44 billion Federal debt: $274.4 billion Consumer Price Index: 26.8 Unemployment: 5.5% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Sports
World SeriesBrooklyn Dodgers d. NY Yankees (4-3)NBA ChampionshipSyracuse d. Ft. Wayne Pistons (4-3)Stanley CupDetroit d. Montreal (4-3)WimbledonWomen: Louise Brough d. B. Fleitz (7-5 8-6) Men: Tony Trabert d. K. Nielsen (6-3 7-5 6-1)Kentucky Derby ChampionSwapsNCAA Basketball ChampionshipSan Francisco d. La Salle (77-63)NCAA Football ChampionsOklahoma (11-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: A Fable, William Faulkner Music: The Saint of Bleecker Street, Gian Carlo Menotti Drama: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams Oscars awarded in 1955 Academy Award, Best Picture: On the Waterfront, Sam Spiegel, producer (Columbia) Nobel Prize for Literature: Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland) 1955 Emmy Awards 1955 Tony Awards Miss America: Lee Meriwether (CA) More Entertainment Awards...
EventsMovies- Rebel without a Cause, Marty, East of Eden, Bad Day at Black Rock, Picnic
Books
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Vincent du Vigneaud (US), for work on pituitary hormones Physics: Polykarp Kusch and Willis E. Lamb, Jr. (US), for atomic measurements Physiology or Medicine: Hugo Theorell (Sweden), for work on oxidation enzymes
Deaths
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