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1957
 
    
US novelist John Cheever publishes The Wapshot Chronicle, depicting a wealthy and eccentric family in Massachusetts       
1957
 
     
Fred Hoyle, William Fowler, and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge explain stellar nucleosynthesis        
1957
 
     
At a conference in Bermuda, Macmillan meets Eisenhower and patches up the 'special relationship' after the rift over Suez        
1957
 
    
US novelist Mary McCarthy describes the religious pressures she grew up with in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood       
1957
 
    
Australian artist Arthur Boyd begins his series of paintings about an aboriginal stockman, Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste       
1957
 
     
The Hawk in the Rain is English author Ted Hughes' first volume of poems        
1957
 
   
Six founding nations (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Germany) establish the European Economic Community (EEC)      
1957
 
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The FNLA is established, with US support, as a guerrilla group to fight for a non-communist independent Angola      
1957
 
    
Jack Kerouac publishes a largely autobiographical novel, On the Road, describing his experiences travelling through the US and Mexico       
1957
 
    
Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses and Aaron, incomplete at his death, has its premiere in Zurich