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Midori Maru (ferry): sinks in heavy seas off Okinawa; 185 saved; map
city to open 17 regis offices for Negroes and Puerto Ricans seeking jobs; Mayor Wagner lauds screening panel, says his aide M Tarshis will receive requests for rev of panel decisions from any dissatisfied applicants
Abp of Canterbury presents manifesto proposing unification of Anglican communion by establishing central authority for 18 natl chs; move would strengthen exec office now held by Bishop Bayne; manifesto urges greater stress on missions; warns against paternalism of home chs towards mission fields
BONN, Aug. 17--West Germany has proposed to the United States that the Ministerial Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization take up the matter of safeguards against surprise attack.
Ceylon reptdly weighs plan for Colombo conf of nations with large Buddhist populations; Pope reptdly has appealed to Pres Ngo for peace; Hawaii's Buddhist leaders protest to Pope, Ngo and others on persecution
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 14, 1963, covering August 18, 1963.
Andy Williams
Stevie Wonder
Soundtrack
Peter| Paul & Mary
Trini Lopez
1963Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.[†]
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans. The movement had origins in the Reconstruction era in the late 19th century, and modern roots in the 1940s. After years of nonviolent protests and civil disobedience campaigns, the civil rights movement achieved many of its legislative goals in the 1960s, during which it secured new protections in federal law for the civil rights of all Americans.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]