* 1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

* Exodus, 1960 ( based on Leon Uris ' 1958 novel of the same name )

Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp ( 1956 ), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and Fires On The Plain ( 1959 ), along with Enjo ( 1958 ), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.

Gernsback's second ( and final ) novel, written c. 1958, was not published until 1971.

He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men ( 1946 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.

( 1957 ); a novel The Long Dream in 1958 ; as well as a collection of short stories, Eight Men, published in 1961, shortly after his death.

The Stone and its authenticity were the subject of the 1958 novel The Stone by Scottish historical novelist Nigel Tranter.

The Brain Eaters, a 1958 film directed by Bruno VeSota, bore a number of similarities to Heinlein's novel.

Dr. No is the sixth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 31 March 1958.

Irvine Welsh ( born 27 September 1958 ) is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting.

He is said to have been the model for the bohemian painter depicted in Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth, which was later made into a 1958 film of the same name with Alec Guinness in the lead role.

Have Space Suit — Will Travel is a science fiction novel for young readers by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( August, September, October 1958 ) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958 as the last of the Heinlein juveniles.

His 1952 novel, A Stone for Danny Fisher, was adapted into a 1958 motion picture King Creole, which starred Elvis Presley.

In 1958, Douglas Sirk directed the film A Time to Love and a Time to Die in Germany, based on Remarque's novel.

* Warlock ( 1958 ), a novel by Oakley Hall prominently features a fictionalized version of the gunfight, known as the " Shootout at the Acme Corral.

The feature film Cowboy ( 1958 ) is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel My Reminiscences as a Cowboy.

The Languages of Pao is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance, first published in 1958, in which the Sapir – Whorf hypothesis is a central theme.

* 1958: Vanjikkottai Valiban Indian Tamil language film was based on this novel

* Methuselah's Children ( 1958 ) ( rewritten novel version )

In the anglophone world, Brian Aldiss is attributed with the first complete novel dealing exclusively with the theme in the 1958 book Non-Stop.

The street name, formerly a nickname for Ocean View Avenue, became official in January 1958 to honor John Steinbeck and his well-known novel Cannery Row.

In some books, an appendix to the book is given entitled " A View without a Room ," written by Forster in 1958 as to what occurred between Lucy and George after the events of the novel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne used the Fountain in " Dr. Heidegger's Experiment " to demonstrate that positive thinking is a far better remedy than deluded journeys to Florida for legendary cures ; Orson Welles directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend ; and Tim Powers featured it in On Stranger Tides, a novel of 18th century pirate-voodoo adventure.

* Elie Wiesel, Night ( 1958 ), sometimes considered an autobiographical novel although classified as a memoir by the author.

* Runway Zero-Eight ( 1958 ) – in-flight medical emergency, caused by food poisoning ; spoofed in the movie Airplane !.

Hailey also co-wrote a novel with John Castle based on the same premise, titled Flight Into Danger: Runway Zero-Eight ( 1958 ).

In 1958, the 116th implemented the ADC Runway Alert Program, in which interceptors of the 128th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron were committed to a five-minute runway alert.

In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.

The decrees proposed by the amici curiae were filed in August of 1958.

The 1958 military pay act departed from this established formula by providing for a 6% increase rather than a proportionate increase for everyone retired prior to its effective date of June 1, 1958.

A summary of meteorite data, prepared by Whipple ( 1958 ) on the basis of photographic, visual, and radar evidence, is given in Table 5-1.

The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).

The mechanism of this coupling has been studied in some detail with non-enzymatic systems in vitro and can be simulated by certain di-iodotyrosine analogues ( Pitt-Rivers and James, 1958 ).

Developments up to about 1957 have been discussed by Sonenberg ( 1958 ).

The importance of knowing in what chemical forms the hormone may exist is accentuated by the recent observation that there exists an abnormally long-acting TSH in blood drawn from many thyrotoxic patients ( Adams, 1958 ).

In February, 1958, the patient suffered a myocardial infarction complicated by pulmonary edema.

In an attempt to reverse the downhill trend by stimulating the bone marrow and controlling any hemolytic component, triamcinolone, 16 mg. daily, was begun on Sept. 26, 1958, and continued until Feb. 18, 1959.

In attempting to improve specificity of staining, the fluorescein-labeled antisera used in both direct and indirect methods were treated in one of several ways: ( 1 ) They were passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and treated with acetone insoluble powders ( Coons, 1958 ) prepared from mouse liver or from healthy sweet clover stems or crown gall tissue produced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens ( E. F. Smith & Townsend ) on sweet clover stems.

Lacking the respected and effective institutions that consensus helps provide, minority parties, such as the P.D.I. in 1957 and the progressive Istiqlal faction in 1958, clamor for elections when out of power, but are not at all certain they wish to be controlled by popular choice when in power.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

In 1958, the Conference endorsed birth control as the responsibility laid by God on parents everywhere.

Vandiver opened his race for governor in 1958 with a battle in the Legislature against the issuance of $50 million worth of additional rural roads bonds proposed by then Gov. Marvin Griffin.

Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry ( Time, Cover, July 14, 1958 ).

Both the BIH scale and A. 1 was defined by an epoch at the beginning of 1958: it was set to read Julian Date 2436204. 5 ( 1 January 1958 00: 00: 00 ) at the corresponding UT2 instant.

* Atlas, a van made by the Standard Motor Company ( UK ) 1958 – 62

There is also an underwater statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe here, created in 1958 by Armando Quesado in memory of a group of divers that died here.

* 1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

In 1950, the company announced the DB2, followed by the DB2 / 4 in 1953, the DB2 / 4 MkII in 1955, the DB Mark III in 1957 and the Italian-styled 3. 7 L DB4 in 1958.

The urban population in South Vietnam nearly tripled: from 2. 8 million people in 1958, to 8 million by 1971.