What Was it Like in the 1960s? |
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"The Twist", Chubby Checker
"Pretty Woman", Roy Orbison
"Can't Buy Me Love", The Beatles
"Honky Tonk Woman", The Rolling Stones
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| Literature |
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A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Deliverance, James Dickey
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
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| Entertainment |
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Chubby Checker's "The Twist" sets-off dance craze. Marilyn Monroe dies. Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein bring Pop Art into fashion. Beatlemania sweeps the nation. The Rolling Stones, Sonny & Cher, and Simon & Garfunkel go platinum. Star Trek and Sesame Street air. Rolling Stone begins publication. Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Oscar for Best Actor. Priscilla Beaulieu and Elvis Presley wed in Las Vegas. Muhammed Ali is indicted for refusing induction into the United States Army. An octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood debuts on NET (now PBS). Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles. John Lennon's 2 Virgins album is declared pornographic in New Jersey. Led Zeppelin's debut album is released in the United States. Barbara Jo Rubin becomes the first woman jockey to win in North America.
 Best Pictures: Lawrence of Arabia, My Fair Lady, In the Heat of the Night and Midnight Cowboy
Best Actors: Gregory Peck for To Kill A Mockingbird, Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady, Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night and John Wayne for True Grit
Best Actresses: Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker, Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins, Katherine Hepburn for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Maggie Smith for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
And on television: Ben Casey, Bewitched, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater, Bonanza, Candid Camera, Car 54, Where Are You?, Daniel Boone, Dr. Kildare, Family Affair, Gentle Ben, Get Smart, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Green Acres, Hawaii Five-O, Hazel, Hee Haw, Here's Lucy, Hogan's Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie, I Spy, Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Julia, Mannix, Marcus Welby, M.D., Mayberry R.F.D., Mission: Impossible, My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction, Route 66, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Tarzan, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Bill Cosby Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Donna Reed Show, The Doris Day Show, The F.B.I., The Flintstones, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The Jim Nabors Hour, The Johnny Cash Show, The Lawrence Welk Show, The Lucy Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Mod Squad, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Virginian, To Tell the Truth and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.
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| Average Salary: $8,346.00 |
| Cost of Living |
| Loaf of Bread: |
.22¢ |
| Gallon of Milk: |
$1.13 |
| Dozen Eggs: |
$1.04 |
| Average House: |
$23,000.00 |
| Average Car: |
$2,612.00 |
| Gallon of Gas: |
.32¢ |
| First Class Stamp: |
.05¢ |
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| World Events |
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Fifty-six people killed in Sharpesville Massacre in S. Africa. OPEC raises oil prices. Sino-Soviet relations suffer. Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria and Madagascar gain independence. Berlin Wall built. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first man in space. UN head Dag Hammarskjold dies in plane crash. Profumo scandal in England. More free nations emerge, including Kenya, Malta, and Jamaica. Nelson Mandela, head of African National Congress, sentenced to life in prison in S. Africa. Kosygin replaces Khruschev. In London, Mary Quant introduces the miniskirt. Cultural Revolution in China. Indira Gandhi elected India's Prime Minister. Military dictatorship takes power in Greece. Six Day War between Arabs and Israelis. N. Vietnam launches Tet Offensive. Soviets occupy Czechoslovakia. DeGaulle resigns office. Algeria votes for independence. Fred Baldasare is the first man to swim the English Channel underwater (SCUBA). The USSR is the first country to send two manned crafts into space. The USSR ratifies a treaty with England and the United States, banning nuclear weapons in space. Egyptian President Nasser closes the Straits of Tiran to Israel. The USSR performs a nuclear test in eastern Kazakhstan. France begins an arms embargo against Israel. The United States-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris.
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| U.S. History |
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John F. Kennedy wins presidential election, youngest and first Catholic to do so. Bay of Pigs invasion fails and Cuban Missile Crisis scares nation - "Duck and cover." Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Peace Corps founded. John Glenn first American in space. Federal troops sent to Mississippi to enforce integration. Wal-Mart opens. JFK is assassinated on Nov. 2, 1963; Lyndon B. Johnson sworn-in. As thousands demonstrate for civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers "I have a dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial. The Thresher sinks off Cape Cod. LBJ is reelected, initiates plans for "War on Poverty" and "Great Society." Civil Rights Bill is passed. Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed after Vietnam attacks US ships and war escalates. Anti-war protests begin. Black Power leader Malcom X is assassinated. NOW and the Black Panthers are formed. Court case leads to Miranda Rights. Pro-civil rights and anti-war demonstrations increase. Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy are assassinated. Nixon is elected and begins troop withdrawal from Vietnam. Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon said, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". Woodstock! The Ford Mustang is formally introduced to the market at a starting price of $2,368. The World's Fair opens in New York. Black students seize the finance building at Northwestern University. The United States performs a nuclear test at a Nevada test site. The 100,000,000th United States' telephone is connected. The United States bombs Hanoi. Ten thousand demonstrate against the war in Vietnam. The United States Congress doubles the presidential salary.
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| At the State College at Salem |
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The men's hockey team begins its first formal season in November in 1961. The Arts and Science Building opens and the Business Administration Department is founded. In 1964, women's field hockey and basketball become varsity sports. Salem becomes a resident campus when Bowditch and Peabody Halls open, accommodating 600 students in 1966. WSSC-AM, the student-run radio station, begins broadcasting in 1967. Political debate is heightened in 1967 when a silent protest is held against the war in Vietnam by 78 students and faculty at the base of the Bell Tower. Twenty students counter protested, while 400 spectators watched. In response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, President Meier requests trustee approval for a plan to enroll 50 African-American students with free tuition, and donate tutorial services from faculty and students. In 1969, State College at Salem becomes Salem State College. President Meier resigns in 1970.
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| Toys and Games |
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Etch-A-Sketch, Hi-Ho! Cherry-O, Aggravation, The Exciting Game Of The Kennedies, Dick Tracy Wrist Radio, Stratego, Sea Monkeys, Singing Chatty Cathy, Mouse Trap, Bowl-A-Matic, Slip 'N Slide, Creepy Crawlers, G.I. Joe, Trouble, Probe, Operation, Battleship Green Hornet Walkie Talkie, Batman Action Figure, Hot Wheels, Ker Plunk, Lite-Brite, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Twister, Incredible Edibles, Don't Break the Ice, Memory (Card Game), Battery Operated Batmobile, Mystery Date, Parker Brothers' Ouija Board, Dr. Doolittle's Pushmi-Pullyu, Star Trek Astro-Walkie Talkies, Silly String, Nerf Ball, Barrel of Monkeys, Weebles, Battling Tops, Billy Blastoff, Easy-Bake Premier Oven, Toss Across, The Monkees Game, Hoppity Hop, Uncle Fester's Mystery Light Bulb, Spirograph, Upsy Downsy Babies, Spudsie The Hot Potato, Ants in the Pants and Frosty Sno-Cone
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