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Events relating to north america
US paratroops enforce desegregation in Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas
The success of the USSR in launching Sputnik prompts the establishment of NASA in the USA
Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim create the Broadway musical West Side Story
Latvian-Canadian dancer Ludmilla Chiriaeff founds the Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal
In The Affluent Society US economist John Kenneth Galbraith criticizes wasteful modern consumerism
Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is published in Paris
Paul Newman stars in the film version of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Truman Capote publishes a short novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's, with a bewitching central character, Holly Golightly
Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson complete a skyscraper for Seagram in New York
Alfred Hitchcock directs Cary Grant in North by Northwest
Vice-president Richard Nixon engages in a 'kitchen debate' with Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev at a US exhibition in Moscow
Billy Wilder directs Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot
Saul Bellow publishes Henderson the Rain King, in which an American millionaire acquires a strange role in an African tribe
The St Lawrence Seaway, a joint Canadian and US project, links the Great Lakes and the sea
US author William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, an account of the horrors of a junkie's life, is published in Paris
Philip Roth publishes his first book, Goodbye, Columbus, a novella and five short stories
William Gibson's play The Miracle Worker dramatizes the extraordinary story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum opens in New York after seventeen years of work on the project
US film director Jules Dassin makes Never on Sunday, starring the Greek actress Melina Mercouri
Soviet forces shoot down a US high-altitude U-2 spy plane and capture the pilot, Gary Powers
US jazz saxophonist John Coltrane forms his own 'hard bop' group
The Colossus is US author Sylvia Plath's first collection of poems
The Quiet Revolution in Quebec begins with the election of Jean Lesage and the Liberals
Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail is the first of many collections of poems by US poet Charles Bukowski
The birth control pill wins FDA approval in the US and goes on sale
