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Nov 7: attitude of S Vietnamese inhabitants of town of Thuthua toward cease‐fire prospects; they express impatience, hope agreement is reached soon; many feel peace is more important than the kind of govt in Saigon; family illus
Easing of regis requirements and addition to electorate of 25.6‐million young voters produce record number of absentee ballots in many US regions; total of 94.5‐million Amers are believed to have properly registered for Nov 7 election
THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM IS OPEN ON; ??? Day, and every day of the year. —ADVT.
Sup Ct upholds lower ct ruling Nov 6 allowing School Dist 25, Flushing, NYC, to ban from school libraries P Thomas book Down These Mean Streets; book depicts gamut of experiences entailed in growing up in Harlem
(McGovern Campaign) Sen McGovern, urging Amers to 'come home' to their ideals by supporting him for Pres, heads home to SD as polls and professional pundits forecast crushing defeat for him; McGovern says 'we are going to prevail,' speech at Philadelphia rally; says election day should be time of joy because it is 'sacrament of our democracy,' speech at airport rally in Long Beach, Calif; makes campaign stop in Wichita; McGovern, in ints tape‐recorded with 3 TV networks, concedes his campaign made errors but voices pride that mistakes had been kept open to public view; speaks of harm to his campaign of opinion polls, but rejects suggestion that polls should be suppressed; reiterates his unwillingness to run again; speaks with NBC's J Dancy and ABC's F Reynolds and CBS's B Morton and B Scheiffer; some details on McGovern's campaign
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 1, 1972, covering November 7, 1972.
Curtis Mayfield
Cat Stevens
The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra (Knight)
Rod Stewart
The Temptations
1972Danny Grewcock, English rugby player[†]
Daniel Jonathan Grewcock MBE is an English former rugby union player who played as a lock. He played for Coventry, Saracens and Bath. He won 69 caps for England and five for the British & Irish Lions.
1972Jason London, American actor and producer[†]
Jason Paul London is an American actor, known for his roles as Randall "Pink" Floyd in director Richard Linklater's film Dazed and Confused (1993), Jesse in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), and Rick Rambis in Out Cold (2001).
1972Jeremy London, American actor and producer[†]
Jeremy Michael London is an American actor. He is best known for his regular roles on Party of Five, 7th Heaven, and I'll Fly Away, a starring role in the 1995 comedy film Mallrats, as well as a notable supporting role in the Civil War epic Gods and Generals. London made his directorial debut with the 2013 horror film The Devil's Dozen, in which he also appeared.
1972Hasim Rahman, American boxer[†]
Hasim Sharif Rahman is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1994 to 2014. He is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the unified WBC, IBF, IBO and lineal titles in 2001; and the WBC title again from 2005 to 2006. He was ranked as a top 10 heavyweight by BoxRec from 2000 to 2007, and reached his highest ranking of world No.6 in 2000.
1972Marcus Stewart, English footballer and coach[†]
William Marcus Paul Stewart is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward from 1991 until 2011.
1972United States presidential election: U.S. President Richard Nixon is re-elected in the largest landslide victory at the time.[†]
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew defeated Democratic Senator George McGovern and former Ambassador Sargent Shriver in a landslide victory. With 60.7% of the popular vote, Richard Nixon won the largest share of the popular vote for the Republican Party in any presidential election.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]