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In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]
1962Susannah Constantine, English fashion designer, journalist, and author[†]
Susannah Caroline Constantine is an English former TV fashion journalist, writer, style advisor, television presenter, author and clothes designer. Her second book, What Not to Wear, co-written with her fashion partner Trinny Woodall, won her a British Book Award and sold 670,000 copies.
1962At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.[†]
Paris Orly Airport is one of two international airports serving Paris, France, the other one being Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). It is located partially in Orly and partially in Villeneuve-le-Roi, 13 km (8.1 mi) south of Paris. It serves as a secondary hub for domestic and overseas territories flights of Air France and as the homebase for Transavia France. Flights operate to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and North America.
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US Embassy, Saigon, bowing to Vietnam morals law, bans square dancing
With husband, greets Prime Min and Lady Macmillan, Chateau de Champs
NY Shakespeare Festival: rehearsals and amphitheatre illus
Jackson says that in effect he endorsed Estes misleading '61 financial statement to Agr Dept by accepting Estes own acct without checking, testimony released by HR (Fountain) subcom; says he was taken in by Estes' reputation; Estes use of endorsement to persuade Agr Dept not to raise bond on his grain storage contracts noted; Jackson says he destroyed working papers after Estes case broke; denies Dept aides statement that he destroyed them after phone call from unidentified Estes assoc
Iraq orders recall of US Amb, recalls own from US to protest US recognition of Kuwait; US to comply; Kuwait Amb al-Atiqi presents credentials, Washington
SAO extends truce; violence continues elsewhere; speculation on Fares confs; French workers repr comments on conf
WASHINGTON, June 2 The Kennedy Administration believes that its relations with West Germany are gradually improving again, thanks largely to what is considered the Soviet Union's lack of interest in serious bargaining over Berlin.
Defeats D Yarborough for Tex Gov nomination, Dem primary run-off; por
birthday marked, Horse Guards parade; illus
MOSCOW, June 2 Premier Khrushchev declared today that a miscalculation in Soviet economic planning had compelled the increase in food prices ordered yesterday.
Govt announces recapture of Puerto Cabello naval base after putting down rebellion by marines; 35 reptd dead, 100 hurt; rebels reptd aided by extreme Left; map