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police clash with demonstrators, Nashville, illus; Rev J M Rollins hurt, 4 Negroes held
Sen Repub Policy Com says priority on race to moon bars solutions to more important problems
WASHINGTON, May 10-- Justice Department officials hailed the settlement of the Birmingham racial dispute as "a tremendous step forward for Birmingham, for Alabama and for the South generally."
bill raising sales tax to 4% as of June 1 signed; yield put at $106,100,000; 2 bills involved, 1 raising basic tax, other raising compensating use tax on out-of-town purchases brought into city by residents; bills signed after 6-hr hearing at which 34 speakers opposed legis, 7 backed it; Wagner statement explains tax rise; discounts permanent harm to econ; rejects payroll tax; Hoving, at hearing, bets $5,000 gift to charity that $105 million will not be raised
Chalmers assures Sec Rusk that Haiti will not oppose return of OAS com; denies law and order have deteriorated; Duvalier informs OAS he will permit 42 pol opponents to leave embassies
1963Natasha Richardson, English actress (died 2009)[†]
Natasha Jane Richardson was a British actress. A part of the Redgrave family, Richardson was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Her husband was Liam Neeson.
1963Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888): 169[†]
Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]