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Top 1957 World News Largely Sputnik Led
The INS editors rank the year 1957 with the Soviet Sputnik launches and the Little Rock crisis as the top stories. Other major items include Eisenhower's health scare, Khrushchev rise, labor racketeering inquiries, Middle East tensions, and the Queen Elizabeth visit. Cameron hurricane losses and Asian flu epidemic also prominence, with coverage of New York and insurance leadership news closing the list.
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Robert Metz
New York
INS
Little Rock
International News Service
United States
Eisenhower
Kremlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Senate
Middle East
Louisiana
Cameron
Queen Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Little Benny Hooper
Giant
Orval Faubus
Central High School
Arkansas
George Malenkov
V. M. Molotov
Lazar Kaganovich
Georgi Zhukov
Communist Party
Stalin
Anthony Eden
Hussein
Jordan
Syria
Audrey
Gulf of Mexico
Cameron Parish
Supreme Court
Congressional Committee
Joseph R. McCarthy
Hungary
England
John Bodkin
Adams
Congress