Jack Kerouac's On the Road , an inspiration for a generation of restless spirits, is published. Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, politician, elected President of Senegal. In 1984 he was the first black person named to the French Academy. Cassius Clay captures the Olympic light heavyweight gold medal. Later becomes Mohammed Ali.
Some crooks are more equal than others.
It would take at least two policemen to lift him one at the feet, one at the shoulders to heave him over the wall. How they must have laughed at such a crazy splash. The Arabs demanded demanded the release of 200 Arab prisoners held by Israel. Following Franco's victory, Juan Puig fled to France where he was interned in concentration camps, then fought against the Nazis with the Resistance. In 1952, moved to Oporto Alegre, Brazil.