Fifty-eight

Hoover won fifty-eight percent of the votes.

Fifty-eight percent of the French are homeowners.

Fifty-eight flood warnings have been issued.

In nineteen fifty-eight, a scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York State developed a game he called "Tennis for Two." William Higinbotham played it on a scientific device called an oscilloscope. The scientist did not see that such a game could become widely popular. But others did.

He hired special boat designers to create a catamaran racing boat made out of aerospace-technology carbon fiber. The boat was called the PlayStation, then later renamed the Cheyenne. In two thousand four, Fossett and his crew sailed around the world in fifty-eight days, six days faster than the earlier record.