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|align=left| March || style="background:#fee;"| NM meets Beverly Bentley. | |align=left| March || style="background:#fee;"| NM meets Beverly Bentley. | ||
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|align=left|March 24 || style="background:#fee;"| NM speaks on existentialism and psychoanalysis at Harvard. | |align=left|March 24 || style="background:#fee;"| NM speaks on [[w:existentialism|existentialism]] and [[w:psychoanalysis|psychoanalysis]] at [[w:Harvard University|Harvard]]. | ||
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|align=left|May 31 || style="background:#fee;"| NM presents “An Existential Evening” at Carnegie Hall, discussing the FBI, President Kennedy and Communism with the audience. | |align=left|May 31 || style="background:#fee;"| NM presents “An Existential Evening” at [[w:Carnegie Hall|Carnegie Hall]], discussing the [[w:Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], [[w:John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]] and [[w:Communism|Communism]] with the audience. | ||
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|align=left| Summer || style="background:#fee;"| “The First Presidential | |align=left| Summer || style="background:#fee;"| [[The First Presidential Paper|“The First Presidential Paper”]], NM’s essay on heroes and leaders, is published in [[w:Dissent (American magazine)|''Dissent'']]. | ||
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|align=left| July-August || style="background:#fee;"| NM and Beverly drive cross-country and back, stopping in Arkansas, Las Vegas (where they see Liston defeat Patterson for the second time), San Francisco and Georgia. | |align=left| July-August || style="background:#fee;"| NM and Beverly drive cross-country and back, stopping in Arkansas, Las Vegas (where they see Liston defeat Patterson for the second time), San Francisco and Georgia. | ||
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|align=left|August 28|| style="background:#fee;"| '''Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Washington Monument during the Civil Rights March on the Capital.''' | |align=left|August 28|| style="background:#fee;"| '''[[w:Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr.]] delivers his [[w:I Have a Dream|“I Have a Dream”]] speech at the [[w:Washington Monument|Washington Monument]] during the [[w:March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|Civil Rights March]] on the [[w:Washington, D.C.|Capital]].''' | ||
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|align=left| Late Summer || style="background:#fee;"| Scott Meredith becomes NM’s literary agent and helps broker the sale of an unwritten novel to Dial Press and Dell Books. NM proposes and ''Esquire'' editor Harold Hayes agrees to the serial publication of this novel in the magazine, January through August 1964. | |align=left| Late Summer || style="background:#fee;"| [[w:Scott Meredith|Scott Meredith]] becomes NM’s literary agent and helps broker the sale of an unwritten novel to [[w:Dial Press|Dial Press]] and [[w:Dell Publishing|Dell Books]]. NM proposes and ''Esquire'' editor [[w:Harold Hayes|Harold Hayes]] agrees to the serial publication of this novel in the magazine, January through August 1964. | ||
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|align=left|September 29 || style="background:#fee;"| NM’s review of Victor Lasky’s ''J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth'' appears in ''Book Week (N.Y. Herald Tribune)''. | |align=left|September 29 || style="background:#fee;"| NM’s review of [[w:Victor Lasky|Victor Lasky’s]] ''J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth'' appears in ''Book Week (N.Y. Herald Tribune)''. | ||
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|align=left| Mid-October || style="background:#fee;"| NM turns in the first of eight installments of the novel to ''Esquire''. | |align=left| Mid-October || style="background:#fee;"| NM turns in the first of eight installments of the novel to ''Esquire''. | ||
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|align=left| August 28 || style="background:#eff;"| NM’s review of [[w:Mark Lane (author)|Mark Lane’s]] [[w:''Rush to Judgment''|''Rush to Judgment'']], an analysis of the [[w:Warren Commission|Warren Commission Report]] on J.F.K.’s assassination, appears in ''Book Week (Washington Post)''. | |align=left| August 28 || style="background:#eff;"| NM’s review of [[w:Mark Lane (author)|Mark Lane’s]] [[w:''Rush to Judgment''|''Rush to Judgment'']], an analysis of the [[w:Warren Commission|Warren Commission Report]] on J.F.K.’s assassination, appears in ''Book Week (Washington Post)''. | ||
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|align=left| August 29 || style="background:#eff;"| | |align=left| August 29 || style="background:#eff;"| Dial Press publishes ''Cannibals and Christians'', NM’s third volume of collected prose and poetry. | ||
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|align=left| October 29 || style="background:#eff;"| [[w:National Organization for Women established|'''National Organization for Women established''']]. | |align=left| October 29 || style="background:#eff;"| [[w:National Organization for Women established|'''National Organization for Women established''']]. | ||