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WASHINGTON, April 19--The United States was preparing tonight a new diplomatic approach to the Russians to try to ease the critical situation in Laos.
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US offers to help nations on request with data and other aid in meeting population growth problems, policy statement circulating in foreign nations
WASHINGTON, April 19--President Kennedy said today that he believed the steel industry "has acted with some restraint" in its recent price increases.
de Gaulle holds NATO indispensable but insists that France must remain her own master, TV s
1963Rachel Whiteread, English sculptor[†]
Dame Rachel Whiteread is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]