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Amb Nolting urges Vietnamese end criticism of Govt to help spur reforms, s, Saigon; stresses continued US support
Western Big 3 protest to USSR against 'aggressive and dangerous' harassment of W Ger-W Berlin flights; warn of 'gravest risk' in letting mil planes illegally criss-cross corridors, buzz planes; warn of defense plans
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NYS Teachers Assn proposes mandatory pay scale starting at $4,700 and rising to $7,200 in 10 yrs, Legis com hearing
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower last night gave a television audience thumbnail appraisals of nine world figures he had dealt with as President or as General of the Army.
1962John Balance, English singer-songwriter (died 2004)[†]
Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton, better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet.
1962The Great Sheffield Gale impacts the United Kingdom, killing nine people; the city of Sheffield is devastated, with 150,000 homes damaged.[†]
The Great Sheffield Gale is the name given to an intense European windstorm which crossed the United Kingdom in mid-February 1962, devastating the city of Sheffield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Nine people were killed across the country, including four in Sheffield; damage in the city was on a widespread and severe scale never before witnessed in a major British city from a European windstorm, and only later matched by the effects of the 1968 Scotland storm in Glasgow.
1962Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.[†]
The North Sea flood of 1962 was a natural disaster affecting mainly the coastal regions of West Germany and in particular the city of Hamburg in the night from 16 February to 17 February 1962. In total, the homes of about 60,000 people were destroyed, and the death toll amounted to 315 in Hamburg. The extratropical cyclone responsible for the flooding had previously crossed the United Kingdom as the Great Sheffield Gale, devastating the city of Sheffield and killing nine people.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]