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VIENTIANE, Laos Monday, May 7 Pro-Communist forces have captured Nam Tha, the royal Government stronghold only twenty miles from Communist China's border that has been under siege for four months.
Kisburg new study for Council finds NYC wages generally behind 17 other big cities; blames ILGWU and ICWA policy of 'artificial restraint of wage increases'; holds such policy sets city-wide pattern; Council pres O'Rourke comments
US believes Govt provoked attack with mil build-up despite repeated warnings from US; does not consider attack clear-cut cease-fire violation; will continue to press for coalition Govt; Harriman on outlook, TV int
5 flee Nassau County Jail; 4 recaptured
Lincoln Arts Center to begin final fund drive; seeks $28,600,000; appeal to stress Center's natl and internatl importance; J D Rockefeller 3d, W Schuman, G W Chapman, other Center officials comment; list of facilities planned, target dates, funds raised and needed; chart of pub donations made and expected
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]