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Movies• Funny Face• The Bridge on the River Kwai• Old Yeller• 3:10 to Yuma• A Face in the Crowd

TV shows• American Bandstand Perry Mason• Maverick• Leave it to Beaver• Have Gun — Will Travel• Zorro• Wagon Train• The Real McCoys• Bachelor Father• The Lucy-Desi

Comedy Hour

Born this year: Vanna White, Hostess of Wheel of Fortune. Above left: Katie Couric, Journalist;

Steve Harvey, TV Host/Actor; Fran Drescher, actress. Ray Romano, actor

• Income per year ....... $5,550• Minimum wage ........... $1.00• New house ............ $18,000• Monthly rent .................... $90• New car .................... $2,100• Gallon of gas .................. 31¢• Dozen eggs .................... 28¢• Gallon of milk ............... $1.00• Loaf of bread .................. 19¢• First-class stamp .............. 3¢• Movie ticket .................... 65¢

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Music• “All Shook Up,” Elvis Presley• “Love Letters in the Sand,”

Pat Boone• “Little Darlin’,” Diamonds• “Young Love,” Tab Hunter• “Tammy,” Debbie Reynolds• “Don’t Forbid Me,” Pat Boone

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Dwight D. Eisenhower34th President of the U.S. (Rep.)

Served from Jan. 20, 1953 to Jan. 20, 1961

World events• Egypt re-opens the

Suez Canal• Malaya gains inde-

pendence from Britain• Asian Flu pandemic• Windscale nuclear

power plant accident in UK

• South Vietnam at-tacked by Viet Cong gue-rillas

• Treat of Rome (for-mation of the European Economic Community)

• This year was the peak of Baby Boomer years

• Singapore gains self rule• Foot and Mouth disease in Eng-

land reaches epidemic proportions with 30,000 animals slaughtered

• Physician Francois Duvalier, Papa Doc, becomes president of Haiti

ican students from entering Central High School in Little Rock on Sept. 4 and shortly after, Federal troops charge defiant protesters with fixed bayonets to ensure the students

can attend

Technology• Ultrasound scanning

pioneered in Scotland• First nuclear reactor

plan opens for production of electricity in Pennsyl-vania

• Soviets test H Bomb• Russia launches first

artificial satellite, Sputnik 1• Great Britain tests first hydrogen

bomb on Christmas Island• Soviets launch Sputnik 2 with

the first animal to enter space, a dog named Laika

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Richard Nixon36th Vice President of the U.S. (Rep.)Served from Jan. 20, 1953 to Jan. 20, 1961

“I have one yardstick by whichI test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good forAmerica?” – Eisenhower

U.S. news• Toyota starts selling

cars in the U.S.; the first is the Toyopet Crown

• Portable radar devices used to enforce speed lim-its

• Martin Luther King Jr. heads nationwide re-sistance to racial segre-gation and discrimina-tion

• Federal troops sent to Arkansas to enforce anti-segrega-tion laws

• Hurricane Audrey hits the Gulf Coast

• The National Guard, on the order of Governor Orval Faubus, is used to prevent nine African-Amer-

Viet CongGuerillas

Laika in Sputnik 2

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