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Ben Bella backers say mil comdrs have broken off conf; failure linked to dispute over membership of pol bur; Ben Bella group seeks to exclude all Ben Khedda backers, especially Krim; expected to launch all-out pol campaign
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Dept to require financial questionnaires for ptl being considered for plainclothes and detective posts; members resentful; PBA advises against signing forms pending confs with dept heads; Deputy Comr Arm defends use
Ct takes parts of 2 newly-enacted acts and writes them into new order for immediate redistricting, 1st reapportionment in 61 yrs and 1st apportionment fixed by a Fed Ct in US; details; orders Legis to be elected in Nov to make further revisions; decree effective for Nov 6 election, May primaries invalid
Sen staff rept prepared for Foreign Relations Com probe finds Foreign Agents Regis Act 'sporadically' enforced, agents fairly free to act; criticizes Justice Dept on enforcement and on liaison with State Dept; Justice Dept sees 'inaccuracies' in rept; rept classifies 5 groups of foreign agents for investigation
1962Steve Albini, American record producer and musician (died 2024)[†]
Steven Frank Albini was an American musician and audio engineer. He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989) and Shellac (1992–2024), and engineered acclaimed albums such as the Pixies' Surfer Rosa (1988), PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, Nirvana's In Utero and Manic Street Preachers' Journal for Plague Lovers (2009).
1962Alvin Robertson, American basketball player[†]
Alvin Cyrrale Robertson is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 1993, and for one final season in 1995–96. Robertson holds the record for the most steals per game played, averaging 2.71 steals per game for his career and is the only player to ever have a season of 300 or more steals which he accomplished in the 1985–86 season. He is one of only four players and the only guard in NBA history to have recorded a quadruple-double.
1962Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer and actress[†]
Martine St. Clair is a Canadian singer from the province of Quebec. She has released numerous albums in a career that has spanned over two decades.
1962Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.[†]
The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built 10 robotic interplanetary probes named Mariner to explore the inner Solar System – visiting the planets Venus, Mars and Mercury for the first time, and returning to Venus and Mars for additional close observations.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]