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confidential rept shows 20% rise in number of Negroes in middle-grade jobs, June '61-June '62; earlier repts showed percentage of Negroes in Govt service compared favorably with ratio to total population but concentration was in lower-grade jobs; details
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Robert M. Morgenthau came down with influenza yesterday, but he left a sick bed last night to make a half-hour campaign television appearance.
Justice Dept asks US Appeals Ct to impose $100,000 fine on Barnett and a continuing $10,000-a-day fine until he purges self of contempt charge; does not ask imprisonment now because he has shown that he has 'ceased affirmative obstruction and interference'; Meredith atty asks immediate arrest of Barnett and Johnson and preliminary injunctions against Barnett and other Miss officials to bar any interference with Meredith at Univ; also asks Dist Atty Alexander be barred from enforcing conviction of Meredith on false voter regis charge; Miss files brief holding Appeals Ct usurps jurisdiction from Dist Ct and that Fed Govt has sought relief that only a party to a suit can request; other points; Justice Dept says Barnett fine is payable by anyone
season opens with Giordano's Andrea Chenier; notables attend; receipts at record $99,209
1962Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (died 2010)[†]
Manute Bol was a Sudanese-American professional basketball player and political activist. Listed at 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) or 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) tall, Bol was one of the two tallest players in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1962Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor[†]
Michael Peter Balzary, known professionally as Flea, is an Australian and American musician and actor. He is a founding member and bassist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea and vocalist Anthony Kiedis are the only two continuous members of the band and he appears on all the band's albums. Flea is also a member of the supergroups Atoms for Peace, Antemasque, Pigface, and Rocket Juice & the Moon, and has played with acts including the Mars Volta, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Alanis Morissette, Young MC, Nirvana, What Is This?, Fear, and Jane's Addiction.
1962Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer (died 2017)[†]
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky was a Russian operatic baritone.
1962Nico Lazaridis, German footballer[†]
Nico Lazaridis is a former professional German footballer.
1962Tamara McKinney, American skier[†]
Tamara McKinney is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She won four World Cup season titles, most notably the 1983 overall, the first American woman title holder for a quarter century. McKinney's other three season titles were in giant slalom and slalom (1984). She was a world champion in the combined event in 1989, her final year of competition.
1962Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (born 1884)[†]
Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break. He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour.
1962Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).[†]
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962. The confrontation is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]