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FROM the sea, in the mist of an autumn morning, New York City looks like a pile of somebody's luggage. Five of us stood on the deck of the Queen Elizabeth that first day and watched the luggage become Manhattan's skyscrapers.
Pres de Gaulle reptdly believes he must keep power through '69, during period when Treaty will have to be re-estab
Washington News repts HR dining room headwaiter E Patinaud accompanied US delegation as guest of Repr Hays; speculation; Repr Burleson comments; Petinaud arrived, Paris, Nov 1; stayed at Continental Hotel
LIMA, Peru--If and when a tourist in Lima hears that a coffepot is bubbling down the street, it will do him no good to go looking for it with a cup in hand. Because in Lima, a coffeepot--a cafetera-- is, in fact, one of the city's ancient taxis.
WHATEVER you may think of "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," you must admit that it's a change of pace for Edward Albee. Compared with the frenetic outbursts, the brutality and hysteria of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" this new play is subdued and mysterious, like a sad nameless song without words.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 6, 1963, covering November 10, 1963.
Peter| Paul & Mary
Barbra Streisand
Ray Charles
Elvis Presley
Trini Lopez
1963Hugh Bonneville, English actor[†]
Hugh Richard Bonniwell Williams, known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, is an English actor. He is best known for portraying Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, in the ITV historical drama series Downton Abbey from 2010 to 2015. His performance on the show earned him a nomination at the Golden Globes and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations, as well as three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He reprised his role in the feature films Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022). He also appeared in the films Notting Hill (1999), Iris (2001), The Monuments Men (2014), and the Paddington films (2014–present).
1963Tommy Davidson, American actor and comedian[†]
Tommy Davidson is an American actor and comedian. He was an original cast member on the sketch comedy TV show In Living Color, and portrayed Mitchell on Between Brothers (1997–1999), Dexter on Malcolm & Eddie (1999–2000), the voice of Oscar Proud on The Proud Family (2001–2005) and its 2022 revival series, Rushon in Booty Call (1997), Womack in Bamboozled (2000), and Cream Corn in Black Dynamite (2009) and its subsequent television series. In 2022, Davidson appeared on Storybound reading from his book, Living in Color: What's Funny about Me.
1963Mike McCarthy, American football player and coach[†]
Michael John McCarthy is an American professional football coach who most recently was the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL) from 2020 to 2024. From 2006 to 2018, he was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers. In 2011, McCarthy led the team to a win in Super Bowl XLV over his hometown team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was also the offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers and New Orleans Saints.
1963Mike Powell, American long jumper[†]
Michael Anthony Powell is an American former track and field athlete, the holder of the long jump world record, and a two-time world champion as well as two-time Olympic silver medalist in the event. His world record of 8.95 m was set on August 30, 1991.
1963Klára Dán von Neumann, Hungarian-American computer scientist (born 1911)[†]
Klára Dán von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, self-taught engineer and computer scientist, noted as one of the first computer programmers. She was the first woman to execute modern-style code on a computer. Dán made significant contributions to the world of programming, including work on the Monte Carlo method, ENIAC, and MANIAC I.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]