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WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-- The Senate Armed Services Committee called on the Joint Chiefs of Staff today to describe the measures required to safeguard against "the risks and disadvantages of the test ban treaty."
5 suspects seized; $280,000 recovered; illus
Reform Judaism's Comm for Soc Action urges Reform congregations boycott businesses that discriminate; outlines recommendations for racial justice
US State Dept repts Cuban air and naval force seized 19 exiles from Brit Bahamas islet; says USCG and mil planes watched but could not intervene because of internatl law; photos and rept sent to Bahamas; map; Cuba says exiles escaped from Cuba on 2 stolen fishing boats; charges 4 were CIA agents and were plotting raids from Brit territory; Brit Embassy in US studies US rept on incident; confirms that USCG had rescued 10 Cubans on islet at Brit request; 10 arrive, Miami; rept on seizure of 19; 2 USCG officers, who viewed seizure int; illus
Mississippi Coll Bd, 6-5, refuses to delay Meredith graduation, overriding Barnett; subcom rept warned against intervention in univ's adm affairs
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 14, 1963, covering August 16, 1963.
Andy Williams
Stevie Wonder
Soundtrack
Peter| Paul & Mary
Trini Lopez
1963Aloísio Pires Alves, Brazilian footballer and manager[†]
Aloísio Pires Alves, known simply as Aloísio, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a central defender.
1963Christine Cavanaugh, American voice artist (died 2014)[†]
Christine Josephine Cavanaugh was an American actress, who had a distinctive speaking style and provided the voice for a large range of cartoon characters. She was the original voices of Chuckie Finster in Nickelodeon's Rugrats and the titular protagonist of Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory, respectively, as well as the voices of Gosalyn Mallard in Disney's Darkwing Duck, Bunnie Rabbot from DIC Entertainment's Sonic the Hedgehog television series, and Oblina in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. She also voiced the title character of the 1995 live-action film Babe.
1963Joan Eardley, British artist (born 1921)[†]
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was a British artist noted for her portraiture of street children in Glasgow and for her landscapes of the fishing village of Catterline and surroundings on the North-East coast of Scotland. One of Scotland's most enduringly popular artists, her career was cut short by breast cancer. Her artistic career had three distinct phases. The first was from 1940 when she enrolled at the Glasgow School of Art through to 1949 when she had a successful exhibition of paintings created while travelling in Italy. From 1950 to 1957, Eardley's work focused on the city of Glasgow and in particular the slum area of Townhead. In the late 1950s, while still living in Glasgow, she spent much time in Catterline before moving there permanently in 1961. During the last years of her life, seascapes and landscapes painted in and around Catterline dominated her output.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]