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IAM sets strike; Pres Kennedy invokes Taft-Hartley Act, names inquiry bd headed by B Aaron
Kennedy appeals for solidarity as only reliable answer to Communism, news conf comment on differences with de Gaulle; denies US seeks to dominate NATO
blizzards sweep Eur; illus
Kennedy sends tax message to Cong; proposes 3-yr program to cut personal and business rates by $13,640,000,000, to give further $700 million relief to poor, elderly and others, and to recoup $4.2 billion of this loss by tightening laws, mainly by reducing personal allowable deductions; net effect would be total relief for some and avg 9% cut at top; Pres, at news conf, urges plan enactment as single bill; '63 cuts would total $2.8 billion for individuals, $440 million for business
Cong reaction; Dems split on issue of single bill; Mansfield, Bogus, McCormack, Repr Albert comment; Kennedy seen satisifed to get tax-cut bill in '63, reform bill later
1963Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and politician, 61st Mayor of São Paulo[†]
Fernando Haddad is a Brazilian scholar, lawyer and politician who has served as the Brazilian Minister of Finance since 1 January 2023. He was previously the mayor of São Paulo from 2013 to 2017 and the Brazilian minister of education from 2005 to 2012.
1963Molly Holzschlag, American computer scientist and author (died 2023)[†]
Molly Miriam Esther Holzschlag was an American author, lecturer and advocate of the Open Web. She wrote or co-authored 35 books on web design and open standards, including The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web. She was nicknamed the "Fairy Godmother of the Web".
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]