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Morgenthau to make views known before conv; Samuels urges delegates not to decide on Morgenthau till he does
Sen Kerr expects Adm pledge to block excessive imports of specific items before trade expansion bill comes to Sen vote, TV int; sees Sen changing bill language but not principles
USSR announces it has agreed to supply arms and tech specialists to train forces to meet threats from 'aggressive imperialist quarters,' communique on Guevara and Capt Aragones Navarro Moscow talks with Khrushchev, other USSR leaders; indus development aid also pledged
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rioters raid Indian Embassy, Jakarta, in demonstration against Asian Games Fed Indian vp Sondhi effort to change name of games because Indonesia refused to accredit Nationalist China and Israel
1962David De Roure, English computer scientist and academic[†]
David Charles De Roure is an English computer scientist who is a professor of e-Research at the University of Oxford, where he is responsible for Digital Humanities in The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), and is a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. He is a supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Oxford Martin School Senior Alumni Fellow.
1962E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (born 1894)[†]
Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room (1922). The following year he published his first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which showed his early experiments with grammar and typography. He wrote four plays; HIM (1927) and Santa Claus: A Morality (1946) were the most successful ones. He wrote EIMI (1933), a travelog of the Soviet Union, and delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in poetry, published as i—six nonlectures (1953). Fairy Tales (1965), a collection of short stories, was published posthumously.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]