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State Controller Arthur Levitt scored a spectacular victory last night, winning re-election to a third term as what he called "the people's auditor, the watchdog of the treasury."
Representative Samuel S. Stratton won a rousing 12,000vote victory yesterday in an upstate Congressional district that the Republicans had deliberately designed to retire him from public office.
USSR reptdly proposes inspections at sea by Swiss technicians working for IRC of ships removing missiles from Cuba; photos show missiles are hurriedly being shipped out; Mikoyan-Castro stalemate linked
Re-elected
1962Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist[†]
Tracie Savage is an American actress and journalist. She has starred in movies and on television.
1962Dirk Shafer, American model, actor, and director (died 2015)[†]
Dirk Alan Shafer was an American model, actor, screenwriter and director. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, he was most noted in the modeling world for having been Playgirl magazine's 1992 "Man of the Year". Shafer related that he did Playgirl for "validation" as a model because he never believed himself to be attractive. Shafer wrote, directed and starred in Man of the Year, a 1995 mockumentary about his time as a semi-closeted gay man in the role of a heterosexual sex symbol. Shafer's next directorial project was Circuit, a fictional look at the world of gay male circuit parties.
1962Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States (born 1884)[†]
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement, and advocacy, she largely redefined the role. Widowed in 1945, she served as a United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952, and took a leading role in designing the text and gaining international support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1948, she was given a standing ovation by the assembly upon their adoption of the declaration. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]