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WASHINGTON, May 9 The Administration and civil rights forces supporting its literacy bill went down to humiliating defeat in the Senate today.
Pres Kennedy offers services of Sec Goldberg in strikes but reiterates view that Govt cannot intervene in all labor-mgt disputes, press conf reply to query on strike by 2,000, Calif; says he is not aware of appeal for help by Calif employers assn
Estes fined $554,162.71 by Agr Dept for violating '61 cotton planting allotments; 9 other Texans fined on similar charges; charges actually involve mktg, not planting, more cotton than allowed under price support program; Dept to deduct Estes fine from payments it owes him for grain storage; land deals which enabled Estes and others to accumulate illegal planting allotments explained; his grain storage and fertilizer deals found to be connected in that he had assigned payments recd for storage to Commercial Solvents Corp, which supplied him with ammonia fertilizer; Labor Sec Goldberg to probe charge that Asst Labor Sec Holleman asked Estes, among others, to help pay for dinner given last Jan by Goldberg to hon Vice Pres Johnson; Holleman comments; Mattox suspended from Reeves County com post pending probe of his relations with Estes; 9 Repub Reprs conf on scandal
Kennedy denies remark applied to all business men, news conf; hopes Govt-indus relations are improved; implies father used epithet to describe some steel officials in '37; transcript
unemployment rate, Apr, at 5.5%, unchanged, but employment rises 711,000 to 66,824,000, record for mo; unemployment at 3,956,000, under 4 million for 1st time since Nov; Goldberg comments
1962Robby Thompson, American baseball player and coach[†]
Robert Randall Thompson is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball (1986–1996) as the second baseman for the San Francisco Giants. During the Giants' resurgence in the late 1980s, he was known as a team leader who played with a gritty determination.
1962Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.[†]
Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman as Timely Comics, and by 1951 had generally become known as Atlas Comics. The Marvel era began in August 1961 with the launch of The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and numerous others. The Marvel brand, which had been used over the years and decades, was solidified as the company's primary brand.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]