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HR com approves new bill authorizing $73 billion to Philippines; bill requires that recipients use payments only for econ benefit of Filipinos and that payments must be completed within 1 yr; Repr Hays backs changes; Repr Barry comments
Premier Khrushchev stresses common interests, s, Bulgaria; better relations among Communist states seen 1 object of Khrushchev visit to Bulgaria
Gen LeMay urges $491 million for RS-70, fiscal '63, Sen subcom; amt is nearly 3 times that asked by Pres Kennedy; Gen Schriever agrees
Identified as having interceded with Fed Judge Rayfiel to win leniency for convicted juke box operator in bribery case
Nearly 200 more employes walked out or failed to report for work yesterday at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. They brought the number of workers engaged in a wildcat stoppage to almost 700 of a staff of 1,800.
1962Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish journalist and author[†]
Lise Lyng Falkenberg is a Danish writer of mostly fiction, biographies and works of literary studies.
1962Andrew Farrar, Australian rugby league player and coach[†]
Andrew Farrar is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Western Suburbs, Wigan and the Illawarra Steelers. Farrar also played for New South Wales in the State of Origin on several occasions and played for Australia in the 1988 World Cup Final. As a coach he worked with the Illawarra Steelers, the St. George Illawarra Dragons and the Wigan Warriors, and from 2017 to 2019 was the General Manager of Football at the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.
1962Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American comedian, actor, and talk show host[†]
Craig Ferguson is a Scottish-American actor, comedian, writer and television host. He is best known for having hosted the CBS late-night talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014). He is the winner of a Peabody Award for his interview with South African archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2009.
1962Jane Moore, English journalist and author[†]
Jane Moore is an English journalist, writer, and television personality. She is a columnist for the tabloid The Sun and writes regular articles for the newspaper The Sunday Times. She was a panellist and anchor on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women between 1999 and 2002, returning as a regular panellist from 2013 onwards. Since 2018, Moore has been regularly relief-anchoring Loose Women. In 2024, Moore appeared as a contestant on the twenty-fourth series of the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
1962Rosalind Picard, American computer scientist and engineer, co-founded Affectiva[†]
Rosalind Wright Picard is an American scholar and inventor who is Grover M. Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of the startups Affectiva and Empatica.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]