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airport formally renamed; illus; Wagner, Sen Kennedy, Gov Hughes s; Gov Rockefeller message
HR, 189-158, in unprecedented 7 AM session, approves $3-billion appropriation without ban on credit underwriting; adjourns; Johnson hails action; Fulbright move for token Sen session to approve bill fails; Halleck illus arriving for vote
US, GB and France prepare declaration of neutrality for Cambodia to represent basic Western position in future dealings; US prefers that accord on Cambodia between West and Communist states be reached through diplomatic channels, not formal conf, but has not flatly opposed conf
FUNCHAL, Madeira, Dec. 24 --Six hundred eleven survivors of the fire-ravaged cruise liner Lakonia arrived here today, stunned and thankful for their rescue.
Amer Jewish Cong charges bd fails to adopt comprehensive and serious program, memo to bd pres Donovan and Gross; is cool toward free-choice transfer policy, advises supplementing it with plans for rezoning more pss and applying Princeton Plan to them; other recommendations
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 25, 1963, covering December 25, 1963.
The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire)
Peter| Paul & Mary
Barbra Streisand
Trini Lopez
The Village Stompers
1963Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (born 1896)[†]
Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement. Under the influence of Adrian Maniu, the adolescent Tzara became interested in Symbolism and co-founded the magazine Simbolul with Ion Vinea and painter Marcel Janco.
1963Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.[†]
Bayrak Radio and Television Corporation, is the official radio and television broadcasting corporation of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It operates BRT1 and BRT2.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]