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Joint (Plumadore) Com on Sports and Physical Fitness has spent its $30,000 appropriation since Apr and is $4,000 in debt; Plumadore defends expenses; expenses detailed; include staff payroll, travel, lodgings; Plumadore asks $10,000 more
Apr-Sept circulation was off 9.2%
confs with Pres Kennedy, White House; illus; returns to Williamsburg after official visit lasting less than 6 hrs; Kennedy avoids politically embarrassing poses; Tito describes visit to Latin Amer; invites Kennedy to visit Yugoslavia; Kennedy hopes Tito will be well recd in US; communique issued; White House picketed during conf; Sen Goldwater disapproves of visit
Estimate Bd unanimously approves $30 million to build new East River tunnel at 64th St for new express line to Queens and to link existing Queens and Manhattan lines with proposed new E Side line
arrives, NYC; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 16, 1963, covering October 18, 1963.
Allan Sherman
Ray Charles
Trini Lopez
Peter| Paul & Mary
Soundtrack
1963Sigvart Dagsland, Norwegian singer, pianist and composer[†]
Sigvart Dagsland is a Norwegian singer, pianist, and composer.
1963Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.[†]
Félicette was a stray Parisian cat that became the first feline launched into space on 18 October 1963 as part of the French space program. She was one of 14 female cats trained for spaceflight. The cats had electrodes implanted into their skulls to monitor their neurological activity throughout the flight. During the flight, electrical impulses were applied to the brain and a leg to stimulate responses. The capsule was recovered 13 minutes after the rocket was ignited. Most of the data from the mission was of good quality, and Félicette survived the flight but was euthanised two months later for the examination of her brain.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]