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In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]
1963Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager[†]
Stanley Purl Menzo is a Dutch football manager and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently the manager of the Suriname national team. He spent ten full seasons at Ajax, appearing in more than 300 official matches with the club and winning nine major titles. He represented the Netherlands national team in one World Cup and one European Championship.
1963Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (born 1908)[†]
Horton Smith was an American professional golfer, best known as the winner of the first and third Masters Tournaments.
Pope changes council seats assigned to patriarchs of Eastern chs to better location; gesture of conciliation toward Eastern and Orthodox Chs seen
Pan Amer deposits $1.5 million with FAA for 15 supersonic liners; TWA deposits $600,000 for 6
7 nations accept US offer of vessel to train crews of mixed nationality; seamen to be instructed in guidance and control systems of Polaris missiles
50 hurt when 2 Erie-Lackawanna commuter trains collide in morning fog near Rutherford, NJ, station; map
6 killed as NY Airways Vertol 107 twin-rotor craft crashes and burns, Idlewild Airport, after take-off for Newark; illus; preliminary probe indicates craft lost sec of rotor blade; dead listed
convoy from Berlin cleared through Babelsberg after 141 passengers submit to count; 2 smaller convoys cleared without count; Army, to avoid new incidents, informs USSR of criteria for count; Adenauer doubts incident was accidental
performance opens Met season; details; illus; some phases of new production, especially ballet, criticized
Alcorn refuses to be Rockefeller's campaign mgr; cites business commitments; decision reptdly made after discovering that Hall and F Scribner would not serve with him as team; Rockefeller to seek Midwesterner as mgr
Mayor Wagner prevention appeal; NYC Fire Dept alerts Manhattan and Bklyn cos for possible SI fire
UN Assembly, 90-2 with 13 abstentions, approves resolution; US and other Western nations abstained; map
Indication that US Sup Ct might apply retroactively its Mar decision requiring states to supply counsel for indigent defendants in criminal cases seen in Justice Harlan dissent to order returning to Fla Sup Ct cases of 10 convicted before Mar decision
Govt charges Moroccan force of several thousand with tanks and planes invades Algeria in attack on outposts of Hassi Beida and Tinjoub in disputed border area; map