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Natl Farmers Orgn to withhold products from mkt in strike for higher grain and livestock prices, Des Moines meeting; Orgn pres Staley comments
Kuznetsov rejects Brit-US proposal, 3-power subcom; opposes obligatory on-site inspection as condition for total ban; says underground tests can be detected by existing natl systems; again cites 3 bases for test ban acceptable to USSR; Dean and Godber suggest further study of Western plan
about 950,000 to get 1¢-an-hr pay rise because of Consumer Price Index rise
Broome, Greene, Putnam Counties back Morgenthau, putting him ahead by 5 votes; Stratton worker accuses Wagner of 'twisting arms' for Morgenthau; Morgenthau workers, with City Hall support, reptd trying to crack O'Connor Queens strength; English leaders O'Connor stop-Morgenthau drive
Atty Gen Kennedy on need for major breakthrough in ending bias by '70
1962Carl Banks, American football player and sportscaster[†]
Carl E. Banks is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played from 1984 to 1995 for the New York Giants, Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns. He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans.
1962Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese game designer and composer[†]
Hiroki Kikuta is a Japanese composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, Soukaigi, and Koudelka, for which he also acted as producer and concept designer. He has composed music for seven other games, and worked as a concept designer in addition to composer for the unreleased MMORPG Chou Bukyo Taisen. He became interested in music at an early age, but earned a degree in Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Cultural Anthropology from Kansai University. He spent the next few years working first as a manga illustrator, then as a composer for anime series, before coming to work for Square in 1991.
1962Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor, writer, producer and author[†]
Ian James Corlett is a Canadian voice actor, animator, and author. He is the creator of the animated series Being Ian and Yvon of the Yukon with Studio B Productions, with notable voice roles including Mega Man in Ruby-Spears' Mega Man series, Cheetor in Beast Wars: Transformers, and the first English voice of adult Goku in the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z from 1996 to 1997.
1962Simon Thurley, English historian and academic[†]
Simon John Thurley is an English academic and architectural historian. He served as Chief Executive of English Heritage from April 2002 to May 2015. In April 2021, he became Chair of the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
1962Richard Angelo, American serial killer and poisoner[†]
Richard Angelo is an American serial killer and former nurse who operated within Long Island and West Islip, New York. In 1989, he was convicted of murdering several of his patients and sentenced to 50-years-to-life in prison.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]