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Right Rev P Moore Jr, PE Bishop of NY, reveals in int on Nov 22 that he was robbed at knife point in Central Pk on Oct 9 by 3 youths; describes youths as 'nice-looking kids' and 'friendly'; says he reptd incident to foot ptl on 5th Ave but never got around to filing formal complaint; expresses shame at not having done so; Moore por
Nov 23: US intelligence officials in Saigon rept Hanoi orders Communist forces in S Vietnam to observe a cease-fire scrupulously for the first 60 days after it goes into effect and to refrain from all acts of vengeance, assassination and terrorism during that period; say order was issued with the highest priority early in Nov; repts captured versions of directive repeats earlier instructions to seize as much territory as possible the few days just before the cease-fire is signed; directive warns there must be no violence after that except in self defense; predicts that Saigon Govt will violate the cease-fire, arrest thousands of pol opponents and fight to win back lost territory; does not specify what Hanoi will do after the 60-day limit; US officials say that Le Duan's signature on directive makes it of prime importance
Nixon is reptd spending wk at his Camp David retreat
One steeplejack died and another escaped serious injury yesterday when they plummet ed from their rigging inside a 180‐foot high cement storage silo in Queens.
Rockefeller Center reported yesterday that it had reached a hastily concluded agreement to close a midtown “massage parlor” and sex movie theater after the giant realty corpora tion was identified as the prin cipal landlord.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 22, 1972, covering November 23, 1972.
Cat Stevens
Curtis Mayfield
The Temptations
Yes
Michael Jackson
1972Christopher James Adler, American drummer[†]
Christopher James Adler is an American musician, best-known as a founding member and the longtime drummer of heavy metal band Lamb of God from 1994 to 2019.
1972Alf-Inge Haaland, Norwegian footballer[†]
Alfie Haaland is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a right-back or midfielder. Haaland played in the Premier League with Nottingham Forest, Leeds United, and Manchester City, and won 34 caps for Norway.
1972Kurupt, American rapper and producer[†]
Ricardo Emmanuel Brown, better known by his stage name Kurupt, is an American rapper and record producer. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he formed Tha Dogg Pound in 1992 along with Daz Dillinger; the rap duo has released eight albums. He also formed the hip hop group The Hrsmn in 1996, with whom he has released two albums. His debut solo album, Kuruption! (1998) was released by A&M Records and peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200.
1972Helen Luz, Brazilian basketball player[†]
Helen Cristina Santos Luz is a retired Brazilian professional basketball player. A starting guard on the great Brazilian teams of the 1990s and early 2000s, she was world champion in the 1994 FIBA World Championship for Women and bronze medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Luz also played for the Washington Mystics in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in 2001–2003, and in the Spanish Liga Femenina for Zaragoza (2003–2004), Barcelona (2004–2006), Rivas (2006–2007), Cadi La Seu (2007–2008), and Hondarribia-Irun (2008–2010). She finished her career in one final season with the Brazilian team Americana, in São Paulo State, announcing her retirement at the end of February 2011.
1972Marie Wilson, American actress (born 1916)[†]
Marie Wilson was an American radio, film, and television actress. She may be best remembered as the title character in My Friend Irma.
1972The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at launching the N1 rocket.[†]
The N1 was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit. The N1 was the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V and was intended to enable crewed travel to the Moon and beyond, with studies beginning as early as 1959. Its first stage, Block A, was the most powerful rocket stage ever flown for over 50 years, with the record standing until Starship's first integrated flight test. However, each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed in flight, with the second attempt resulting in the vehicle crashing back onto its launch pad shortly after liftoff. Adverse characteristics of the large cluster of thirty engines and its complex fuel and oxidizer feeder systems were not revealed earlier in development because static test firings had not been conducted.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]