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In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[â ]
1972Toni Collette, Australian actress[â ]
Toni Collette is an Australian actress, singer, and songwriter. Known for her work in television, blockbusters and independent films, her accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, with nominations for an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards and a Tony Award.
1972Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer and manager[â ]
Paul Dickov is a Scottish former professional football manager and player who works as a television pundit for Manchester City TV.
1972Jenny McCarthy, American actress and model[â ]
Jennifer Ann McCarthy-Wahlberg is an American actress, model, television personality, and anti-vaccine activist. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then had a television and film acting career, beginning as a co-host on the MTV game show Singled Out (1995â1997) and afterwards starring in the eponymous sitcom Jenny (1997â1998), as well as films including BASEketball (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Dirty Love (2005), John Tucker Must Die (2006), and Santa Baby (2006). In 2013, she hosted her own television talk show The Jenny McCarthy Show, and became a co-host of the ABC talk show The View, appearing on the program until 2014. Since 2019, McCarthy has been a judge on the Fox musical competition show The Masked Singer.
1972Glen Murray, Canadian ice hockey player[â ]
Glen John Murray is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins and Los Angeles Kings. He is currently the Director of Player Development for the Kings.
1972Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (born 1902)[â ]
Per Waldemar Hammenhög was a Swedish writer and novelist. The trivial, petty bourgeois urban environment forms the basis of many of his early realistic novels, whereas his later works turned towards religious and moral issues. Writing more than 40 novels, Hammenhög is probably best known for Pettersson & Bendel (1931), a humorous novel adapted twice to screen.
1972Robert MacArthur, Canadian-American ecologist and academic (born 1930)[â ]
Robert Helmer MacArthur was a Canadian-born American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology. He is considered to be one of the founders of ecology.
1972Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (born 1885)[â ]
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the SalĂČ Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos.
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Nov 1: US seeks reassurances from Hanoi that, once peace accord takes effect, it will withdraw many of the 35,000 troops it now has stationed in northern part of S Vietnam, although it is not required to do so under terms of draft pact; White House reaffirms that Pres Nixon will not be 'stampeded' into signing of draft until Kissinger settles all details in further sessions; Oct 31 deadline imposed by Hanoi for signing passes; US intelligence sources rept that so far no N Vietnamese units have been detected leaving S Vietnam for the North; all indications are that Hanoi is rushing supplies into the South to reinforce units there before the expected ceaseâfire; informed sources say informal troops withdrawal agreement is similar to that worked out by W A Harriman in '68; Nixon Adm officials say Saigon could not possibly, in effect, veto a settlement; say that, except for 35,000 N Vietnamese forces near DMZ, bulk of the forces are primarily 'defensive' and will be used to protect Vietcong enclaves
NYC Police Dept on Oct 31 accuses 6 trucking cos that have purported links to Mafia of having monopolized curb space in city's garment district; spokesmen for the cos are either unavailable for comment, have no comment or call allegations 'ridiculous'; dept does not specify on what basis it has ascribed links to cos; begins campaign against them with issuance of 70 summonses between midnight and 3 PM; Deputy Comr W P McCarthy says operation is dept move to eliminate organized crime from garment indus; Mafia figures reptdly involved in garment center curb space monopoly are identified by Deputy Comr R Kelierman as C Gambino, S Aloi, C Tramunti and N Evola; Kelierman says Consolidated Carriers, Morton Delivery Co, Interstate Dress Carriers Inc, Amity Garment Delivery Inc, Feinberg Trucking and Trinity Trucking Co are believed by police to be controlled or connected with Mafia families; Feinberg Trucking sec M Feinberg denies charges and threatens legal action
SAIGON, South Vietnam, Wednesday, Nov. 1—President Nguyen Van Thieu today deInounced the draft peace agree‐, ment that was to have been (signed yesterday as “a surrender of the South Vietnamese people to the Communists.”
Holy Family School, a 1,500âpupil RC school near J Wilson JHS in Canarsie, is temporarily closed on Oct 31 because of racial tensions in area caused by demonstration and boycott by white parents protesting busing of black students from lowâincome Tilden housing project in Brownsville to Wilson JHS
Conservatives win 109 seats, Liberals 108, in Canadian parliamentary election; New Dems win 30, Soc Credit 15 and 2 independents are elected; Canada faces uncertainty since neither major pol party has majority in Commons; Trudeau withholds plans; Conservative leader R L Stanfield says his party is prepared to form govt and that Trudeau should resign because he has lost confidence of people, news conf; Trudeau policy to upgrade French language in Canada seen major factor in election upset; options open to Trudeau discussed; 3 pol party leaders illus
Dem Pres candidate G McGovern charges Pres Nixon with aggravating plight of cities through continued and excessive mil spending, Oct 31 speech, Jersey City, NJ; adds nation's defense is being weakened by diverting too much revenue into nonâessential mil items, citing recent bill of $325,000 for research on mil use of frisbees; illus
HR Banking and Currency Com releases 2d staff rept on Oct 31 based on investigation in breakâin and alleged bugging of Watergate offices which raises new questions about possible violations of campaign financing, banking and tax laws in connection with several large contributions to Com for Reâelection of the Pres; rept detailed
investigative chronology of Watergate case disclosed
(Nixon Campaign) White House announces on Oct 31 that Pres Nixon has scheduled lastâmin round of TV and radio addresses to present his case for reâelection; all broadcasts will be paid for by reâelection com; final flurry of activity said to represent only slight departure from Nixon's campaign strategy; Nixon has campaigned personally in only 10 states; is presently scheduled to make only 2 more campaign trips before election; Nixon's aloofness in campaign said to be dictated by his desire to maintain lofty 'Presidential' image and to avoid direct test of personalities with Sen McGovern; Harris Poll shows Nixon increasing his margin to 60% as compared with McGovern's 32%; Nixon's associates continue to attack McGovern; Council of Econ Advisers chmn H Stein scores McGovern's domestic proposals, speech, San Francisco; C Yeutter, Nixon's farm campaign dir, predicts 2/3 of farm vote will be cast for Nixon, news conf, Washington
Mayor Lindsay, announcing on Oct 31 that he is ending job freeze for NYC govt workers, notes that he would have been unable to end manpower freeze without funds from Fed revenue sharingâ$250âmillion for 12âmo period
In Paris, diplomatic sources reported that Hanoi and Washington had agreed on an international truce‐supervisory commission consisting of Canada, Indonesia, Poland and Hungary and on a peace conference to follow within 30 days of the signing, with Secretary General Waldheim of the United Nations participating.
Pierre, Anthony; Sutton, Abraham L: NYU student A L Sutton and former student A Pierre are found shot to death on Oct 31 in their apt near NYU Univ Heights campus in Bronx; police rept finding a quantity of drugs and narcotics paraphernalia in apt; list deaths as drugârelated and speculate that youths were dealers slain in course of dispute that arose during a transaction; neighbors comment