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Kennedys leave Mex after attending mass at Basilica de Guadalupe and after farewell at airport by Lopez Mateo
Algeria votes to become ind, referendum; unofficial results put vote at 2,605,203-6,732; over 70% of 5 million eligible voted; majority of Eurs who voted back independence; Moslems rejoice; voting scenes illus; decision will end 132-yr French rule; French will continue adm until Algerians have organized pol structure; French and nationalist troops avoid border clash
boy believed to be Y Schuhmacher found, Bklyn, reptdly by Israeli secret service orgn; taken into custody by US Immigration and Naturalization Service; case revd
Gov Brown fears rights resolution will split Conf
J Reston repts Kennedy Adm studies nuclear partnership between US and integrated Eur force; says US hopes Eurs will come up with control plan
1962Neil Williams, English cricketer (died 2006)[†]
Neil Fitzgerald Williams was an England cricketer, who played first-class cricket for both Middlesex and Essex. In a first-class career spanning over seventeen years, he took 675 wickets and scored 4,457 runs.
1962The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.[†]
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other countries. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company was founded in 1962 by brothers Sam Walton and James "Bud" Walton in nearby Rogers, Arkansas. It also owns and operates Sam's Club retail warehouses.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]