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SAO extends truce 48 hrs though nationalists apparently reptdly to trap SAO leader P Gardy
to Lt Comdr Carpenter on orbital flight
Jouhaud urges SAO end terrorism, asks Salan to endorse appeal, statement from death cell; statement pub though Jouhaud intended it be pub after his execution; French Assembly rejects censure motion
primory results; Nixon wins Gov nomination by 2-1 margin; Shell concedes; tabulation; Kuchel defeats Wright and Jarvis for renomination; State Sen Richards wins Dem Sen nomination; total vote is over 4 million, primary is 1st in 50 yrs in which candidates are barred from cross-filing
Kennedy challenges AMA to say it always approved system and still does, reply to Larson lr; cites Dr M Fishbein '39 statement pub in AMA Journal opposing soc security, AMA Delegates House '49 resolution
1962Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japanese director[†]
Hirokazu Kore-eda is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films, including Nobody Knows (2004), Still Walking (2008), and After the Storm (2016). He won the Jury Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Like Father, Like Son, and won the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for Shoplifters.
1962Yves Klein, French painter (born 1928)[†]
Yves Klein was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. He developed and used International Klein Blue.
1962Tom Phillis, Australian motorcycle racer (born 1934)[†]
Thomas Edward Phillis was an Australian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He won the 1961 125cc motorcycle road racing World Championship and was the first person to lap the Isle of Man TT mountain circuit at over 100 mph on a pushrod engined motorcycle. He was also the first person to win a World Championship motorcycle race on a Japanese machine.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]