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Detectives L J Fallon and J P Finnegan slain by 2 gunmen in Bklyn hold-up
Japan tells US Amb Reischauer that troop deployment without prior notice has embarrassed Japanese Govt; Min Kosaka comments
8 judges and Govt prosecutor in Salan case get SAO death threats warning against executing Salan or Jouhaud; Debre to testify; Sen Mitterrand testifies on '57 attempt on Salan's life; implies Debre may have been involved; Salan's bro Dr G Salan testifies; Salan illus
J R Hoffa SM Commercial Carriers indicted on charge that Hoffa and late O B Brennan violated Taft-Hartley Act by accepting over $1 million in illegal payments from co, '49-58; indictment charges co set up and financed 2d co, Test Fleet, through which it paid Hoffa and Brennan by transferring all new co's stock to their wives; holds Test Fleet took title to 10 trucks and leassd them to Commercial Carriers for assignment to lucrative car-hauling traffic; former co execs B B Beveridge, R Von Beckum and present co employe E B Beidler named co-conspirators, but not defendants; indictment is about 25th brought against Teamsters members since Kennedy Adm took office; Justice Dept role discussed; H Gibbons comments
exodus of Eurs continues despite SAO harassment; 2 packet-boat sailings wkly, Algiers-Marseilles, set; ship and plane facilities put under Army protection; hated Zouaves rgt withdrawn from Casbah, Algiers; replaced by Alpine Chasseurs; over 14,800 heads-of-family regis as repatriates in France, Jan-Apr; Morocco maps relief program for Algerians
1962Richard Taylor (mathematician), English mathematician, involved in completing the proof of Fermat's last theorem and the Sato-Tate conjecture.[†]
Richard Lawrence Taylor is a British mathematician working in the field of number theory. He is currently the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University in California.
1962Gabriele Münter, German painter (born 1877)[†]
Gabriele Münter was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding member of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.
1962A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".[†]
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first Roman Catholic and youngest person elected president at 43 years. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress prior to his presidency.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]