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Council Finance Com proposes cuts of $15,291,710 and increases of $1,541,710 to balance budget
It was "go" in the stock market early last week as key market averages zoomed to new 1963 highs. The upward movement seemed to be well supported by favorable economic statistics. But it was still a market of stocks, with individual shares reacting as expected to specific news. Many of the low-price stocks were extremely active and showed relatively large gains.
NY Times survey of mail-order indus; growth in use of catalogues as mdsg tools by Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and Spiegel Inc discussed; popularity of US catalogues in other nations noted; catalogue production techniques and costs discussed; illus
LAST year, when she heard that my sister and I were going to spend the summer in Europe, a young Radcliffe student gave us each a sturdy, green book bag. I thanked her prettily, wondering what in thunder I should
Spicy Living, Eleonora R. Sears's home-bred, rallied from the middle of the pack at the top of the stretch yesterday and went on to win the 33rd running of the Acorn ...
1963Filippo Galli, Italian footballer and manager[†]
Filippo Galli is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a defender.
1963Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (born 1871)[†]
Walter Bowman Russell was an American impressionist painter, sculptor, and author. Russell wrote extensively on science topics, but his ideas were rejected by scientists.
1963The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.[†]
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]