#november 1962

[javelinbk]

1. Photo by Astrid Kirchherr, November 1962

2. Photo by Angus McBean, February 1963

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue November 1, 1962

Jean Shrimpton in an evening suit, dinner, theater… Beige velvet metallic brocade, with a leafy pattern in gold and silver; pale blue chiffon blouse. By Helen Rose. Earrings by Castlecliff. Hair bow by Lilly Daché. Hairdresser Kenneth Battelle.

Jean Shrimpton en tailleur de soirée, dîner, théatre… Brocart métallisé velours beige,avec un motif feuillu en or et argent ; chemisier en mousseline bleu pâle. Par Helen Rose. Boucles d'oreilles par Castlecliff. Noeud à cheveux par Lilly Daché. Coiffure Kenneth Battelle.

Photo Louis Faurer vogue archive

[theamericanpin-up]

Alberto Vargas - November 1962 Playboy Magazine Vargas Girl Illustration - "That's funny - the bottoms are too large for me but the top is too small." - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[dateinthelife]

26 November 1962

On this date, George Martin utters these immortal words over the control booth microphone in Abbey Road's studio 2:

“Congratulations, gentlemen. You’ve just made your first number one.”

[nupaintings]

[lonestarbattleship]

"Lead ship of a new class of more compact fast battleships, USS South Dakota (BB-57) had the same speed and gun battery as the North Carolina class, but she had a better armor-protection scheme. She underwent mothballing at Philadelphia in 1946, the fate of nearly all the battleships at war's end. This photo, taken in 1962, shows the mothball period coming to an end as the ship, with less than five years' commissioned service on her record, is towed away to be scrapped."

(Naval Institute Collection)

[lonestarflight]

The SA-3 Saturn I lifts off on the rocket's third flight and second flight of Project Highwater, from Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

"This mission was the first time the Saturn I rocket was launched with a full load of propellant, carrying approximately 750,000 pounds (340,000 kg) of fuel."

"Project Highwater, authorized by NASA's Office of Space Sciences. The inert S-IV and S-V stages for these launches carried 109,000 liters, or 30,000 gallons, of ballast water for release in the upper atmosphere. This was used to study the effects on radio transmission and changes in local weather conditions. At an altitude of 150 km, explosive devices ruptured the S-IV and S-V tanks, and in five seconds, ground observers saw the formation of a huge ice cloud estimated to be several kilometers in diameter."

Date: November 16, 1962

NASA ID: 2-2886-1, MSFC-6203272, 62-SA3-12, LOC-62PC-123, SAT-3-28, 62-SA3-13, LOC 62C-2047, LOC 62PC-120

source

[wonhakwoon]

Happy 60th Birthday

Kirk Lee Hammett

November, 18th 1962

[todaysdocument]

“First Lady and Son,” 11/30/1962. 

Collection JFK-WHP: White House Photographs

Series: Cecil Stoughton's White House Photographs

Image description: Silhouette of Mrs. Kennedy, with two-year-old John F. Kennedy, Jr., on her hip, framed by the light streaming in the South Portico Entrance of the White House.

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue November 1, 1962

Anne De Zogheb wears a white satin ball gown, a short jacket flamboyant with gold and bronze-colored embroidery. The cuffs are trimmed with sable. By Marc Bohan for Christian Dior. Carita's hairstyle.

Anne De Zogheb porte une robe de bal en satin blanc, une courte veste flamboyante d'or et de broderies de couleur bronze. Les poignets sont garnies de martre. Par Marc Bohan pour Christian Dior. Coiffure de Carita.

Photo Irving Penn vogue archive

[theamericanpin-up]

Harry Ekman - "Sure, I like to pet … doesn't everyone?" - November 1962 Calendar Illustration - Osborne Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[dateinthelife]

15 November 1962

The Beatles fly back from Hamburg, by now thoroughly disenchanted with the experience:

"Nothing happened: a thoroughly uneventful week has passed … In fact Hamburg is dead as far as we’re concerned.” (Paul McCartney in a letter home to a friend)

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Not-a-Dress November

Dr. No / Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder

This is quite possibly the most famous swimsuit in film! Although bikinis had been around for about ten years by this point, they were still considered a bit daring. This film helped the style to go mainstream.

There's an excellent and detailed writeup of the suit here. They note, for example, that it's made of multiple layers of fabric so that it will not turn translucent when wet. One bit of trivia that I did not know was that the belt was given to Andress by a British sailor stationed in Jamaica who happened to be watching the filming! She thought the bikini was "missing something," so an officer told him to take off his belt and give it to her.

Now I'm going to have that darn song stuck in my head for the rest of the day...

[nerds-yearbook]

Nov 1, 1962, Italy's most famous comic digest "Diabolik" first appeared in print. Diabolik was the creation of sisters Angela and Luciana Giussana. ("The King of Terror" Diabolik, Comic, event)

[lonestarflight]

SA-3 Saturn I stands ready for launch at Complex 34.

Date: November 16, 1962

NASA ID: 62-SA3-15, KSC-62P-216

[reasonsforhope]

The Klamath River’s salmon population has declined due to myriad factors, but the biggest culprit is believed to be a series of dams built along the river from 1918 to 1962, cutting off fish migration routes.

Now, after decades of Indigenous advocacy, four of the structures are being demolished as part of the largest dam removal project in United States history. In November, crews finished removing the first of the four dams as part of a push to restore 644 kilometres (400 miles) of fish habitat.

“Dam removal is the largest single step that we can take to restore the Klamath River ecosystem,” [Barry McCovey, a member of the Yurok Tribe and director of tribal fisheries,] told Al Jazeera. “We’re going to see benefits to the ecosystem and then, in turn, to the fishery for decades and decades to come.” ...

A ‘watershed moment’

Four years later, [after a catastrophic fish die-off in 2002,] in 2006, the licence for the hydroelectric dams expired. That created an opportunity, according to Mark Bransom, CEO of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC), a nonprofit founded to oversee the dam removals.

Standards for protecting fisheries had increased since the initial license was issued, and the utility company responsible for the dams faced a choice. It could either upgrade the dams at an economic loss or enter into a settlement agreement that would allow it to operate the dams until they could be demolished.

“A big driver was the economics — knowing that they would have to modify these facilities to bring them up to modern environmental standards,” Bransom explained. “And the economics just didn’t pencil out.”

The utility company chose the settlement. In 2016, the KRRC was created to work with the state governments of California and Oregon to demolish the dams.

Final approval for the deal came in 2022, in what Bransom remembers as a “watershed moment”.

Regulators at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) voted unanimously to tear down the dams, citing the benefit to the environment as well as to Indigenous tribes...

Tears of joy

Destruction of the first dam — the smallest, known as Copco 2 — began in June, with heavy machinery like excavators tearing down its concrete walls.

[Amy Cordalis, a Yurok Tribe member, fisherwoman and lawyer for the tribe,] was present for the start of the destruction. Bransom had invited her and fellow KRRC board members to visit the bend in the Klamath River where Copco 2 was being removed. She remembers taking his hand as they walked along a gravel ridge towards the water, a vein of blue nestled amid rolling hills.

“And then, there it was,” Cordalis said. “Or there it wasn’t. The dam was gone.”

For the first time in a century, water flowed freely through that area of the river. Cordalis felt like she was seeing her homelands restored.

Tears of joy began to roll down her cheeks. “I just cried so hard because it was so beautiful.”

The experience was also “profound” for Bransom. “It really was literally a jolt of energy that flowed through us,” he said, calling the visit “perhaps one of the most touching, most moving moments in my entire life”.

Demolition on Copco 2 was completed in November, with work starting on the other three dams. The entire project is scheduled to wrap in late 2024.

[A resilient river]

But experts like McCovey say major hurdles remain to restoring the river’s historic salmon population.

Climate change is warming the water. Wildfires and flash floods are contaminating the river with debris. And tiny particles from rubber vehicle tires are washing off roadways and into waterways, where their chemicals can kill fish within hours.

McCovey, however, is optimistic that the dam demolitions will help the river become more resilient.

“Dam removal is one of the best things we can do to help the Klamath basin be ready to handle climate change,” McCovey explained. He added that the river’s uninterrupted flow will also help flush out sediment and improve water quality.

The removal project is not the solution to all the river’s woes, but McCovey believes it’s a start — a step towards rebuilding the reciprocal relationship between the waterway and the Indigenous people who rely on it.

“We do a little bit of work, and then we start to see more salmon, and then maybe we get to eat more salmon, and that starts to help our people heal a little bit,” McCovey said. “And once we start healing, then we’re in a place where we can start to help the ecosystem a little bit more.”"

-via Al Jazeera, December 4, 2023