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loses to L B Pearson in election contest for power
A city program to harness the resources of neighborhoods to provide work-training for the unskilled jobless was announced yesterday.
real estate indus fears its effects
ct meets, Portsmouth; illus; Skylark crew member Lt Watson repts sound of ship breaking up heard just after lost garbled message from Thresher; other testimony
Pope delivers Easter eve message; heard on W Eur radio
1963Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian monk and historian (born 1893)[†]
Rahul Sankrityayan was an Indian author, essayist, playwright, historian, and scholar of Buddhism who wrote in Hindi and Bhojpuri. Known as the "father of Hindi travel literature", Sankrityayan played a pivotal role in giving Hindi travelogue a literary form. He was one of the most widely travelled scholars of India, spending forty-five years away from his home, exploring regions such as Russia, Tibet, China, and Central Asia.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]