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Mickey Mantle was reported resting comfortably at Lenox Hill Hospital yesterday, while speculation over the extent of the 30-year-old Yankee star's leg injury was uncomfortably anxious.
property owners 1868 covenant limits high-rise construction on 61st and 62d Sts, 2d-3d Avs; illus
Defense Dept issues 'fact sheet' charging weapons and equipment of some Army reserve units would be ineffective in modern war; suggests Guard and reserves cannot mobilize rapidly; notes efforts to eliminate obsolete weapons in reserves, citing 90-mm AAA Guard units; Natl Guard Assn pres Harrison scores sheet, wire to McNamara; denies Guard has 90-mm units
Greek Money caught Ridan right at the finish yesterday to win the $188,300 Preakness Stakes by a nose before 33,854 racegoers at Pimlico in Baltimore.
article on new embassies being built, Washington; illus
1962Timothy (Szretter), a Polish Orthodox clergyman, the third Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland (born 1901)[†]
Timothy, secular name Jerzy Szretter was a Polish Orthodox clergyman, the third Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]