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Possible serious damage to one of the city's oldest churches has been averted during excavation for a new skyscraper in the downtown Manhattan financial district.
The New York Giants yesterday signed Yelberton Abraham Tittle, the 36-yearold quarterback, to a twoyear contact, much to the dismay of their rivals in the National Football League.
several thousand white persons, mostly youths, stir riot by pelting CORE pickets outside White Castle restaurant, Allerton Av and Boston Post Rd, Bronx; 2 pickets injured; CORE seeks more jobs for Negroes, says chain employs only 4
article on Lippold and Berks sculptures, Albers and Kepes murals in lobby; Lippold work illus
New NYS rules governing ad of subdivided land offered NYS residents detailed
1963Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Vonda Shepard is an American singer, songwriter, music director, and actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as a fictionalized version of herself on the television series Ally McBeal (1997–2002), for which she recorded five soundtrack albums as well as the series' theme song "Searchin' My Soul", which saw international commercial success. Shepard has otherwise released nine studio albums and three live albums. She received a Screen Actors Guild Award as a cast member of Ally McBeal in 1999 among two additional nominations, and received a Billboard award for selling the most television soundtrack albums in history.
1963Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.[†]
The Buddhist crisis was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign of civil resistance, led mainly by Buddhist monks.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]