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ATLANTA, Feb. 28--Federal officials completed an inquiry today into a report that a voluntary approach had largely failed to improve Negro job opportunities in industries with Government contracts.
Project Apollo dir Holmes repts Saturn F-1 rocket engine has serious combustion difficulty, HR com; confident it can be overcome
GB, Italy, W Ger, Belgium, Greece, Turkey and Netherlands now back US-proposed multilateral nuclear Polaris missile force
Govt forces kill 13 guerrillas, capture 24
Sen com pub hearings on wilderness bill; Repr Aspinall, Sen Allott, others challenge Pres power to set aside pub land; Sac Udall comments
1963Bryan Batt, American actor[†]
Bryan Batt is an American actor best known for his role in the AMC series Mad Men as Salvatore Romano, the closeted art director for the Sterling Cooper agency. Primarily a theater actor, he has had a number of starring roles in movies and television as well. His performance in the musical adaptation of Saturday Night Fever earned him one of New York City's more unusual honors, a caricature at Sardi's.
1963Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager[†]
Ronald Michael Francis Jr. is a Canadian ice hockey sports executive and former player. He currently serves as the president of hockey operations for the Seattle Kraken. He spent most of his career as either a player or executive for the Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes organization, 23 years in total.
1963Magnus Svensson, Swedish ice hockey player[†]
Magnus Svensson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player. He won a gold medal with Team Sweden at the 1994 Winter Olympics. He also played 46 games in the National Hockey League with the Florida Panthers.
1963Russell Wong, American actor[†]
Russell Wong is an American actor. Born in New York, Wong attended Santa Monica City College while training to become a dancer. With the desire of becoming an actor, he moved to Hong Kong in 1983, where he learned Cantonese and martial arts, leading to his first film role in The Musical Singer (1985), directed by Dennis Yu. His first English-language film was Tai-Pan (1986).
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]