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Rusk holds West should make most of current easing of tension with USSR despite lack of concrete progress on Berlin, s, NATO Council; backed by Schroeder and Home; Couve de Murville hopes talks will continue but warns against going too far into negotiations
Dutch Rear Adm Reeser repts 25 Indonesian paratroopers dropped, Fakfak area, 3d 'invasion' since Jan 15; map; repts Dutch marines sent out to hunt them down; Indonesian planes reptdly sighted at Sorong
effigy in Oran st warning Moslem security forces illus
US sees evidence of imminent resumption
Kennedy, appealing for program, holds US must 'trade or fade,' s, New Orleans; illus; says program is basic to growing free-world partnership aimed at strengthening US
1962Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (born 1889)[†]
George Ernest Tyldesley was an English cricketer. The younger brother of Johnny Tyldesley and the leading batsman for Lancashire. He remains Lancashire's most prolific run-getter of all time, and is one of only a few batsmen to have scored 100 centuries in the first-class game.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]