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W Eur Union Assembly refuses to endorse multilateral fleet; approves amended resolution by Brit Labor MP G Brown proposing all nuclear weapons be put under joint pol control; action is advisory; fleet backed by W Ger Min Schroeder, who stresses integrated defense; opposed by de Gaulle follower J Baumel
J E Farmer of CORE urges Pres Johnson sponsor $15-million program of remedial educ for deprived, mostly Negroes; Johnson interested
annual clinical meeting
keeps post in new Govt
new anti-submarine missile unveiled by USN; is launched by rocket from submerged submarine, flies through air, re-enters water near target and explodes like depth charge; has range of up to 30 mi; will be in use within several mos; illus; Goodyear Aerospace Corp prime contractor
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 1963, covering December 5, 1963.
The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire)
Peter| Paul & Mary
Barbra Streisand
Peter| Paul & Mary
Trini Lopez
1963Doctor Dré, American television and radio host[†]
André Brown, better known as Doctor Dré, is an American rapper, radio personality and former MTV VJ.
1963Carrie Hamilton, American actress and playwright (died 2002)[†]
Carrie Louise Hamilton was an American actress, playwright and singer. Hamilton was a daughter of comedian Carol Burnett and producer Joe Hamilton. She was the elder sister of actress Jody Hamilton and singer-producer Erin Hamilton.
1963Alberto Nisman, Argentinian lawyer (died 2015)[†]
Natalio Alberto Nisman was an Argentine lawyer who worked as a federal prosecutor, noted for being the chief investigator of the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentina's history. On 18 January 2015, Nisman was found dead at his home in Buenos Aires, one day before he was scheduled to report on his findings before a Congress inquiry with supposedly incriminating evidence against high-ranking officials of the then-current Argentinian government including former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, regarding the Memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran.
1963Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer and educator (born 1905)[†]
Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century.
1963Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1892)[†]
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was an East Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1956 to 1957 and before that as the Prime Minister of Bengal from 1946 to 1947. In both Pakistan and Bangladesh, Suhrawardy is regarded as a patron of separate homeland for the Muslims, especially for Bengali Muslims, for which he is revered as one of the founding statesmen of Pakistan.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]