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Wagner demands Weinberg group withdraw before city will conf with co, TV int; scores Rockefeller delay; co to act to protect interests
Kennedy urges talks resume within wk, news conf; McDonald comments
Kennedy repts US has cut wide variety of import duties on goods worth $100 million to permit imports at below 'peril point' level, rept to Cong on negotiations with 24 nations; hails accords as saving US mkts and giving 4-to-3 advantage in concessions granted over those recd; gives examples of benefits to US, news conf; stresses need for new program to keep US leadership; details on bargaining
Western observers interpret 2 Khrushchev statements to mean USSR must choose between more arms or more food
Kennedy opposes any cut in US aid to retaliate for expropriations of US property, news conf; Cong moves for such cuts noted
1962Leon Robinson, American actor[†]
Leon Preston Robinson, usually credited as simply Leon, is an American actor and singer who began his professional career as a film actor in the early 1980s. He is best known for his roles as J.T. Matthews in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats, Derice Bannock in the 1993 film Cool Runnings, Shep in the 1994 basketball drama film Above the Rim, singer David Ruffin in the 1998 NBC miniseries The Temptations, and Little Richard in the 2000 film Little Richard.
1962A Turkish Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes into Mount Medetsiz in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey, killing all 11 people on board.[†]
Turkish Airlines, or legally Türk Hava Yolları Anonim Ortaklığı, is the flag carrier of Turkey. As of June 2024, it operates scheduled services to 352 destinations in Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas. The airline serves more destinations non-stop from a single airport than any other airline in the world and flies to 131 countries, more than any other airline. With an operational fleet of 24 cargo aircraft, the airline's cargo division Turkish Cargo serves 82 destinations. The airline also owns a low-cost subsidiary, AJet.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]