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BRUSSELS, Belgium, Monday, July 30 Customs officers in the six European Common Market countries put into effect last midnight a radically new system of handling trade in farm products. Over the years ahead millions of farmers and traders inside and outside of Europe will almost surely feel the effects.
reorgn of Pres Com on Equal Employment Opportunity planned following T W Kheel rept on study of operations; he stresses exec dir to coordinate work of J Feild enforcement staff and Troutman Plans for Progress staff; other proposals
Adm Gorshkov says fleet is more modern than that of any capitalist country
Israeli Cabinet bars entry under Law of Return; Govt circles reptdly oppose any further cooperation with US; Cabinet Com (Shapiro, Shitreet, Meir, Bar-yehuda, Joseph) formed to probe Soblen expulsion from Israel; El Al Airline's responsibility to continue Soblen flight to US becomes issue, Israel and GB; 2 Brit Labor MPs to urge Soblen be allowed to choose destination if pol asylum is denied
$93,500 now recovered; D F Cataldo held, Bklyn, for receiving stock; was trapped through anon message and informer L Amendola; both were reptdly also involved in NYC burglary
1962Alton Brown, American chef, author, and producer[†]
Alton Crawford Brown Jr. is an American television personality, food show presenter, food scientist, author, voice actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats that ran for 16 seasons, host of the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen. Brown is a best-selling author of several books on food and cooking. A recap series titled Good Eats Reloaded aired on Cooking Channel, and a true sequel series, Good Eats: The Return, ran from 2019 to 2021 on Food Network.
1962Jay Feaster, American ice hockey player and manager[†]
Jay Harry Feaster is a National Hockey League (NHL) executive currently serving as the Executive Director of Community Hockey Development for the Tampa Bay Lightning. He is the former general manager of the Calgary Flames, having served from May 16, 2011 to December 12, 2013, after serving as acting general manager since December 28, 2010, following Darryl Sutter's resignation. He was the general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning for six years, during which he was named the NHL's executive of the year by The Sporting News in 2004 after guiding the Lightning to their first Stanley Cup championship.
1962Yakub Memon, Indian accountant and terrorist (died 2015)[†]
Yakub Abdul Razzaq Memon was an Indian terrorist over his financial involvements in the 1993 Bombay bombings, and the brother of one of the prime suspects in the bombings, Tiger Memon. After his appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected, he was executed at Nagpur Central Jail on 30 July 2015. Memon financially assisted his brother Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim in planning and executing the bombings. Memon handled Tiger's funds, funded the training of 15 youths who were sent to a secret location to learn handling arms and ammunition, purchased the vehicles used in the bombings, and stockpiled weapons.
1962The Trans-Canada Highway, the then longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.[†]
The Trans-Canada Highway is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast. The main route spans 7,476 km (4,645 mi) across the country, one of the longest routes of its type in the world. The highway system is recognizable by its distinctive white-on-green maple leaf route markers, although there are small variations in the markers in some provinces.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]