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Legis fails to meet Ct-imposed deadline and Assembly falls to override vetoes; Fed Ct names E L Wingert as special master to draw up plan; Repubs score intervention
USSR denies N Vietnam supports rebel movement in S Vietnam, reply to Brit June 14 note; demands evacuation of US forces; charges US wages undeclared war and with Ngo Dinh Diem regime violates '54 Geneva accord
Adm accepts prospective delay in Sen action on tax bill to open way for action on trade bill
Ben Khedda and all but 2 mins of regime return from Tunisia to Algiers 6 hrs after independence proclamation; get tumultuous welcome; illus; Ben Khedda urges Algerians-Eurs cooperation, s at airport; Ben Bella and ex-Min Khider absent from group; Ben Khedda return marred by defection of Col Z'Biri, mil comdr of Willaya (zone) I in SE who issues declaration against regime, calls on Army to follow 'true' leaders listed as Ben Bella and others; only 1 willaya, Kabylia, still loyal to Ben Khedda regime; power transfer from France also marked by exch of visits between Fares and Fouchet
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1962Pam Shriver, American tennis player and sportscaster[†]
Pamela Howard Shriver is an American former professional tennis player and current tennis broadcaster, pundit, and coach. She was ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and world No. 1 in doubles. During the 1980s and 1990s, Shriver won 133 WTA Tour-level titles: 21 in singles and 112 in doubles. This includes 22 major titles, 21 in women's doubles and one in mixed doubles, as well as an Olympic gold medal in women's doubles at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, partnering Zina Garrison. Shriver and regular doubles partner Martina Navratilova are the only women's pair to complete the Grand Slam in a calendar year, winning all four majors in 1984.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]