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Heath bitter; speculation on future Brit policy; London reaction
news conf, UN
AT&T, under FCC pressure, cuts rates sharply on long distance calls between 9PM and 4:30AM; co statement
Thant says US and other nations may now give direct aid without UN sanction; sees mil phase nearly ended; repts UN force will be cut to about 12,000 by Apr; Cleveland mission leaves for Leopoldville
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- President Kennedy will send to Congress within the next few days an ambitious national program to fight mental illnesses that afflict an estimated total of 22,000,000 Americans.
1963Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (born 1899)[â ]
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite Trois mouvements perpĂ©tuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champĂȘtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera Dialogues des CarmĂ©lites (1957), and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir, and orchestra.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[â ]