Events from the year 1962 in Michigan. The Associated Press selected the top news stories of 1962 in Michigan as follows: 1. * George Romney's successful campaign to become Governor of Michigan (AP-1); 2. * The end of the Michigan Constitutional Convention (AP-2); 3. * The January 30 tragedy in which the Wallenda family, performing a high wire pyramid in front of 7,000 spectators at the Shrine Circus at Detroit's State Fair Coliseum, sustained two deaths and three other injuries when their human pyramid collapsed (AP-3); 4. * Record profits and sales in the automobile business (AP-4); 5. * Completion of the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge connecting the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario (AP-5); 6. * The defeat of proposed tax reform i