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The Consolidated Edison Company is seeking a 5 per cent increase in electric rates in New York City and Westchester, effective Oct. 1.
Pres Kennedy says he will continue to press program though it may damage prospects for re-election, news conf; sees Repubs taking similar stand
HR com refuses Adm request to reappropriate $50 million of unexpented fiscal '63 Alliance funds, approves full $200 million for soc program fund
Adm reptdly has enough votes in com to win approval for Reprs Boggs and Watts compromise proposal to repeal 4% credit on stock divds but double $50 exclusion; com approves higher deductions for child-care expenses and for employe moving expenses; N Johnson and D T Smith score proposed credit repeal, AFL-CIO spokesman approves it
Rusk accepts Gromyko inv to stay for few days of talks; Khrushchev shifts vacation plans to be present
1963Laura Bennett, American architect and fashion designer[†]
Laura Eugenia Bennett is an American architect and fashion designer and one of the four finalists on Bravo's July 2006's Project Runway .
1963Uğur Tütüneker, Turkish footballer and manager[†]
Uğur Tütüneker is a Turkish former footballer and manager who most recently served as the manager of Adana Demirspor. After migrating to Germany with his family, he started playing football at Bayern Munich youth academy.
1963Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)[†]
Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge II was an American writer and anthropologist. In 1925 he explored early Olmec sites in Mexico, and later studied additional sites in Central America and the American Southwest. In addition to more than 15 scholarly works, mostly about Native Americans, he wrote several novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Laughing Boy (1929). La Farge also wrote and published short stories, in magazines such as The New Yorker and Esquire.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]