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August 11, 1962

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Headlines from August 11, 1962

N.L.R.B. Puts Rein On Racial Tactics; N.L.R.B. PUTS REIN ON RACIAL TACTICS

By John D. Pomfret Special To the New York Times

NLRB bars employers from using inflammatory racial propaganda to defeat orgn attempts by unions, ACWA vs Sewell Mfg and TWUA vs Allen-Morrison cases; upholds 'truthful' accts of other party's position on racial matters but puts onus of proving truthfulness on party using racial message; cases revd; unions hall ruling as aid to orgn drive in South

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ARGENTINA FACES INTRA-ARMY FIGHT IN GENERALS' FEUD; Guido Appeals for Accord Over His Appointment of New War Secretary RIVAL UNITS ON MOVE Troops Gather on Opposite Sides of Buenos Aires-- Tanks Ride Into City FIGHTING IN ARMY FACES ARGENTINA

By Unknown Author

pro-Toranzo troops move into positions threatening Govt House, Buenos Aires; Govt declares Toranzo 'in absolute rebellion'; pro-Govt troops reptdly enter Palermo to subdue rebel troops; Guido appeals to rival mil groups and pub to prevent tragedy, TV-radio s; Lt Gen Senorans resigns a few hrs after apptmt as War Sec; opposed by Toranzo; Cantilo reptdly also resigns; Guido, after conf with Cabinet and mil advisers, says he had support of 3 mil secs for all of his actions during crisis; figures in crisis illus

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KENNEDY TO GIVE VIEW ON TAX CUT OVER TV MONDAY; Confers With Key Advisers on the Necessity of Asking an Immediate Reduction JULY'S INDICATORS MIXED Capital Holds to Belief That Request Will Not Be Made --Congress Still Is Cool KENNEDY TO GIVE TAX VIEWS ON TV

By Richard E. Mooney Special To the New York Times

Kennedy confs with advisers in preparation for TV talk to nation on natl econ and advisability of proposing immediate tax cut; gets July repts showing improved econ picture, thus diminishing case for cut; Cong remains unenthusiastic; conferees listed

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Notable Births

Brian Azzarello

1962Brian Azzarello, American author[†]

Brian Azzarello is an American comic book writer and screenwriter who first came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. Azzarello is best known for his numerous collaborations with artists Eduardo Risso and Lee Bermejo, his contributions to the Watchmen prequel project Before Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns sequel series DK III: The Master Race, as well as for his stints on the long-running Vertigo series Hellblazer and The New 52 relaunch of the Wonder Woman title.

Charles Cecil

1962Charles Cecil, English video game designer and co-founded Revolution Software[†]

Charles Cecil is a British video game designer and co-founder of Revolution Software. His family lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was still very young, but was evacuated two years after Mobutu Sese Seko's coup d'état. He studied at Bedales School in Hampshire, England. In 1980 he began his studies in Engineering Manufacture and Management at the University of Manchester, where he met student Richard Turner who invited him to write text adventures for Artic Computing. After completing his degree in 1985 he decided to continue his career in game development and became director of Artic. The following year he established Paragon Programming, a game development company working with British publisher U.S. Gold. In 1987 he moved into publishing as a software development manager for U.S. Gold. A year later he was approached by Activision and was offered the position of manager of their European development studio.

1962John Micklethwait, English journalist and author[†]

Richard John Micklethwait is a British journalist who is the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, a position he has held since February 2015. He was previously the editor-in-chief of The Economist from 2006 to 2015.

Rob Minkoff

1962Rob Minkoff, American director and producer[†]

Robert Ralph Minkoff is an American director, animator, and producer. He is best known for co-directing The Lion King, and live-action films including Stuart Little (1999), Stuart Little 2 (2002), The Haunted Mansion (2003), and The Forbidden Kingdom (2008). In recent decades, he returned to feature animation with Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) and Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022). His wife, Crystal Kung Minkoff, was a cast member on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Historical Events

Vostok 3 and 4

1962Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.[†]

Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were Soviet space program flights in August 1962, intended to determine the ability of the human body to function in conditions of weightlessness, test the ground control capability to launch and manage two separate, concurrent flights, and test the endurance of the Vostok 3KA spacecraft over longer flights. Cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev orbited the Earth 64 times in Vostok 3 over nearly four days in space, August 11–15, 1962, a feat which would not be matched by NASA until the Gemini program (1965–1966). Pavel Popovich was launched on Vostok 4 on August 12, and made 48 Earth orbits. The two capsules were launched on trajectories that brought the spacecraft within approximately 6.5 km (4.0 mi) of each another.

Historical Context for August 11, 1962

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