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Govt rejects plan for 2d commercial TV network; proposes greater control over existing commercial TV but takes less severe attitude than that recommended in Pilkington rept last summer; details
Khrushchev and other top officials hold informal meeting with several hundred artists and intellectuals, assure them that some experimentation will be permitted despite drive for adherence to socialist realism
Sec Hodges urges prompt tax cut effective Jan 1, news conf; urges 5% cut in corp tax rate; illus; Gullander lauds Kennedy proposals for cut to spur econ
US State Dept holds communications satellite system must be truly internatl enterprise; fears duplication and rivalry once several nations develop own systems; urges merging planned US satellite corp into internatl orgn; speculation; Deputy Asst Sec Gardner article on issue in Foreign Affairs cited
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18-- President Kennedy has ordered a United States military team to fly to the Congo this week to study means of restoring stability to that troubled country.
1962Gary Fleder, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Gary Fleder is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His most recently completed film, Homefront, was released by Open Road Films and Millennium Films in November 2013. In recent years he has been a prolific director of television pilots.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]