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April 11, 1962

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WEST GIVES SOVIET LAST OPPORTUNITY TO HEAD OFF TEST; U.S.-British Note Urges Shift on Inspection, but Moscow Radio Derides Appeal Soviet Gets Copy Aimed at Neutrals West Gives Soviet Last Chance to Prevent Tests

By E.w. Kenworthy Special To the New York Times

Joint statement with Prime Min Macmillan giving USSR last chance to accept internatl inspection in nuclear tests ban before West resumes atmospheric testing

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Maugham Art Collection Is Sold; A Two-Sided Picasso Brings $224,000 in $1,466,864 Sale $1,466,864 IS PAID FOR MAUGHAM ART

By James Feron Special To the New York Times

35 paintings from collection sold at auction, London, for $1,466,864; Picasso's Death of Harlequin brings top price of $224,000; Maugham confirms money will be used to aid needy writers

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Ben-Gurion Assails U.S. on Vote in U.N.; ISRAEL ASSAILS U.S. ON U.N. VOTE He Charges Revision Ben Bella Threat Reported

By Lawrence Fellows Special To the New York Times

Middle East News Agency repts Algerian Provisional Govt Vice Premier Ben Bella pledges 100,000 soldiers to help Arabs 'liberate' Israel

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CALLED 'CATCH-UP'; Company Cites Higher Costs--Increase First in 4 Years First to Sign Accord U.S. STEEL RAISES PRICES $6 A TON McDonald Concerned U.S. Steel Officers Report Rise

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Robert Kennedy Debates Ervin on Literacy Tests; Calls Them Chief Device to Keep Negro From Voting in the South--Senator Fights Bill to Curb Such Abuses ROBERT KENNEDY AND ERVIN CLASH

By Anthony Lewis. Special To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, April 10-- Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said that literacy and similar tests were now the principal device used to keep Negroes from voting in the South.

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Notable Births

1962Franck Ducheix, French fencer^[†]

Franck Ducheix is a French fencer. He won a silver medal in the team sabre at the 1984 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

1962Mark Lawson, English journalist and author^[†]

Mark Gerard Lawson is an English journalist, broadcaster and author. Specialising in culture and the arts, he is best known for presenting the flagship BBC Radio 4 arts programme Front Row between 1998 and 2014. He is also a Guardian columnist, and presented Mark Lawson Talks To... on BBC Four from 2006 to 2015.

Notable Deaths

1962Ukichiro Nakaya, Japanese physicist and academic (born 1900)^[†]

Ukichiro Nakaya was a Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences. He is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes.

1962George Poage, American hurdler and educator (born 1880)^[†]

George Coleman Poage was an American track and field athlete. He was the first black and the first African-American athlete to win a medal in the Olympic Games, winning two bronze medals at the 1904 games in St. Louis.

1962Axel Revold, Norwegian painter (born 1887)^[†]

Axel Revold was a Norwegian painter, illustrator, and art professor at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts for twenty years. He was highly decorated for his merits.

Historical Context for April 11, 1962

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