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rebels hold out in Seria oil field; Brit push attack
Nehru offers to submit dispute to Internatl Ct if Chinese withdraw to positions held before Sept 8; rejects Chinese demands to withdraw Indian troops to beyond 12 1/2 mi of Nov '59 line and to enter talks on demilitarization of border zone; warns Colombo conf against 'compromise with aggression'; warns of long struggle; derides Chinese claims of Indian aggression; Lower House, by acclamation, backs Govt policies
Dean Monro charges organized promotion of use of mind-distorting drugs (stimulants) among Harvard and other univ students
ITU Local 6 Pres Powers charges Times hires strikebreakers to handle copy for ed; A H Bradford denies it
Tsarapkin offers to have internatl teams visit '2-3' black box stations that USSR would permit on its territory; stresses USSR would take steps to safeguard own security during such visits; C C Stelle (US) comments
1962Ben Browder, American actor[†]
Robert Benedict Browder is an American actor, writer and film director, known for his roles as John Crichton in Farscape and Cameron Mitchell in Stargate SG-1.
1962Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.[†]
Arthur Lucas, originally from the U.S. state of Georgia, was one of the last two people to be executed in Canada, on December 11, 1962. Lucas had been convicted of the murder of 44-year-old Therland Crater, a drug dealer and police informant from Detroit. He is also assumed to have killed 20-year-old Carolyn Ann Newman, Crater's common-law wife, but was never tried in her death. Crater was shot four times, while Newman was nearly decapitated. The murders took place in Toronto on 17 November 1961.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]