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MOSCOW, May 31.--The Soviet Union discouraged today Western hopes of obtaining Communist cooperation in efforts to halt the fighting in Laos.
2,000 Muscovites sitting as citizen's ct in local stadium unanimously vote to exile 3 'idlers' from city under '61 decree authorizing expulsion of those 'who shun socially useful labor and lead antisocial parasitic way of life,'
Rahman and Sukarno conf, Tokyo; illus; agree to end rift over Sukarno's opposition to fed
FCC satisfied WNDT made no programing deal in accepting gifts, ends probe
1963Vital Borkelmans, Belgian footballer[†]
Vital Philomene Borkelmans is a Belgian football coach and a former left fullback who mainly played for Club Brugge, in the Belgian First Division.
1963Miles J. Padgett, Scottish physicist and academic[†]
Miles John Padgett is a Royal Society Research Professor of Optics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. He has held the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy since 2011 and served as Vice Principal for research at Glasgow from 2014 to 2020.
1963David Westhead, English actor and producer[†]
David William Logan Westhead is an English actor.
1963Walter Lee, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Tasmania (born 1874)[†]
Sir Walter Henry Lee KCMG was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions: from 15 April 1916 to 12 August 1922; from 14 August 1923 to 25 October 1923; and from 15 March 1934 to 22 June 1934.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]