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June 18, 1962

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Headlines from June 18, 1962

U.S.PANEL SPLIT OVER NEGRO JOBS; Johnson Committee Tries to Reconcile 'Voluntary' and 'Compulsory' Programs Johnson's Committee on Jobs for Negroes Is Divided Over a 'Voluntary' Program N.A.A.C.P. FEARS DRIVE MAY FALTER But Vice President's Aides and Labor Secretary Are Untroubled by Dispute 65 Per Cent Settled Finds Value in Threats Decries Integration 'Fuss' May Discuss Proposal Publicity Value Stressed Asks Data on Complaints

By Peter Braestrup Special To the New York Times

rift within Pres Com on Equal Employment Opportunity center's on staff dir J G Feild efforts to compel employers to bar bias and com member R B Troutman Jr advocacy of voluntary Plans for Progress; Negro orgns oppose voluntary plans; T W Kheel rept on study of com operation awaited

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Notable Births

Lisa Randall

1962Lisa Randall, American physicist and academic[†]

Lisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Her research includes the fundamental forces of nature and dimensions of space. She studies the Standard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the relative weakness of gravity, cosmology of dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. She contributed to the Randall–Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.

Historical Context for June 18, 1962

In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]