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Rusk and Gromyko conf, Geneva; deadlock continues
USSR flies 4 planes at times and altitudes coinciding with those of Allied commercial flights in corridor; Brit Army surgeon permitted to visit injured driver
Urging passage of improved unemployment ins program
Evian talks continue
Negroes still without equal rights and opportunities despite gains in recent yrs; de facto segregation in housing and educ described; rise in Negro population and areas of greatest concentration noted
1962Alfredo Maia, Portuguese politician[†]
Manuel Alfredo da Rocha Maia is a Portuguese journalist, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A communist, he has represented Porto since September 2023. He had previously been a temporary substitute member of the Assembly from September 2022 to March 2023.
1962Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor (born 1882)[†]
Anne Crawford Acheson was a British-Irish sculptor. She and Elinor Hallé invented plaster casts for soldier's broken limbs. Acheson exhibited at the Royal Academy and internationally. She was awarded the CBE in 1919. During the First World War she worked for the Surgical Requisites Association at Mulberry Walk in Chelsea, London. Acheson received the Gleichen Memorial Award in 1938. She divided her time between London and Glenavy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]