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The Catholic High Schools Athletic Association had beginner's luck yesterday at Madison Square Garden. For the first time in thirty-four years of its indoor track and field championships a two-mile run was listed. It produced an unofficial national schoolboy record.
PARIS, March 4 -- W. Averell Harriman, United States Ambassador at Large, delivered today a personal message from President Kennedy to President de Gaulle expressing the desire for close personal and governmental relations but proposing no early meeting.
PARIS, March 4 -- Construction crews all over Paris are very lonely. They have their work, they have their foreman and they have their wine and food. But they are lacking a vital element in any building program: there are few sidewalk superintendents.
LAS VEGAS, Nev., March 4 -- Gene Fullmer pounded out a messy but unanimous fifteen-round decision over Sugar Ray Robinson tonight and kept the National Boxing Association version of the world middle-weight title.
non-deductible business losses facing US investors as result of seizure of property abroad discussed; Cuban experience seen deterring investment in under-developed nations
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]