The National Defense Education Act is signed, authorizing low-interest, long-term tuition loans to college and graduate students. Also that year:

_ The Supreme Court orders states not to delay public school desegregation, citing the situation in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 in which Governor Faubus defied the Supreme Court by closing four high schools and reopening them as private schools.

_ Truman Capote publishes Breakfast at Tiffany’s.