BCS Class of '60
1960 Trivia
Economy

President
Vice President

Population
Life Expectancy

Avg Income
Mininum Wage

Dow-Jones Avg
Dow-Jones High
Dow-Jones Low 

Federal Spending
Federal Debt
Inflation
Consumer Price Index
Unemployment 


Prices  

New Home
New Car
Dozen Eggs
Gallon of Milk
Gallon of Regular Gas
Loaf of Bread 
First-Class Stamp


Billboard Top 10 

  1You Talk Too Much
  2Cathy's Clown 
  3Twist, The 
  4Save The Last Dance For Me 
  5Running Bear 
  6Sweet Nothin's 
  7Handy Man 
  8Walk, Don't Run 
  9Alley-Oop 
10Stay 


Top Albums 

Nice `n' Easy 
Persuasive Percussion 
The Sound of Music


Grammy Awards 

Album of the Year
Best New Artist
Best Pop Duo or Group
Best Pop Female Vocal
Best Pop Male Vocal
Best Pop Single Artist
Record of the Year
Song of the Year


Americas Top 20 TV Favorites 

  1Gunsmoke   
  2Wagon Train   
  3Have Gun, will travel   
  4The Andy Griffith Show   
  5The Real McCoys   
  6Rawhide   
  7Candid Camera   
  8The Untouchables   
  9The Price is Right   
10The Jack Benny Show   
11Dennis the Menace   
12The Danny Thomas Show   
13My Three Sons   
1477 Sunset Strip   
15The Ed Sullivan Show   
16Perry Mason   
17Bonanza   
18The Flintstones   
19The Red Skelton Show   
20Alfred Hitchcock Presents   


Emmy Awards, Drama

Best Drama 
Best Actor 
Best Actress 


Emmy Awards, Comedy 

Best Comedy
Best Variety


Academy Award Winners 

Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress


Books, Fiction Best Sellers 

Advise and Consent 
Hawaii 
The Leopard 
The Chapman Report 
Ourselves to Know 
The Constant Image -
Sermons and Soda-Water -


Books, Nonfiction Best Sellers 

Folk Medicine 
The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook 
May This House Be Safe from Tigers 
Better Homes & Gardens Dessert Book 
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 
The Conscience of a Conservative -


Pulitzer Fiction 

Advise and Concent


Sports, Football 

NFL
Pro MVP

College Football
Heisman Trophy
Rose Bowl
Orange Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Sugar Bowl


Sports, Basketball 

NBA Championship Winner
Opposing Team
NBA MVP
NCAA National Champions


Sports, Baseball 

World Series Winner
Opposing Team
National League MVP
Rookie of the Year
American League MVP
Rookie of the Year


News Headlines 

·   Capt. Gary Powers U-2 Spy Plane Shot Down Over Russia 
·   Israelis Kidnap Adolf Eichman from Argentina to Jerusalem 
·   Khrushchev at U.N . Pounds Shoe In Anger. 
·   John F. Kennedy Wins Democratic Nomination, Nixon wins GOP 
·   Kennedy Wins Presidency, Democrats Sweep Congress 
·   Two White Public Schools in New Orleans Are The First To Integrate. 
·   House Committee Looks Into "Payola" American Bandstand DJ Dick Clark Involved 
·   Alan Freedman Eight Arrested In Taking Radio Payola 
·   Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology


In The News 

·   Soldiers stop riots at Newport Jazz Festival 
·   Enovil 10, first contraceptive pill sold for .50 cents each. 
·   Two airliners collide over Staten Island, 134 die. 
·   Howdy Doody show ends after 13 years 
·   Negro Sit-ins Integrate Lunch Counter In Greensboro North Carolina 
·   Floyd Patterson is first fighter to regain title by beating Ingemar Johanson 
·   Castro Nationalizes all American property 
·   Black runner Wilma Rudolph wins 3 Olympic gold medals 
·   Kennedy and Nixon meet in first televised Presidential debate 
·   Emily Post, Queen of etiquette dies 
·   Advise and Consent by Allen Drury is a best seller 
·   The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer is another best seller 
·   Harper Lee wins a Pulitzer Prize for To Kill a Mockingbird 
·   Nick Holonayk invents the digital display for the pocket calculator & electronic watches 
·   Eco One is launched, the worlds first communication satellite 
·   The worlds first weather satellite, Tiros is launched 
·   Pete Rozell becomes NFL commissioner 
·   Rafer Johnson wins gold in the decathlon 
·   Cassius Clay wins Olympic gold in boxing 
·   Mrs. Kennedy becomes the fashion to follow 
·   Women's "knickers" are in 
·   Men's sports coats are plaids, bold prints, strips and checks 
·   Berry Gordy borrows $800 and starts Motown Records 
·   Estimated 850,000 "war babies" enter college, overcrowding dorms 
·   JF. Kennedy Jr. is born on Nov. 25 , by Cesarean delivery 
·   Fads, talkathons, folk singing in coffee houses 
·   Deiz Arnaz and Lucille Ball file for divorce 
·   New York court rules "Lady Chaterleys Lover " is not obscene 
·   Earnest Evans changes his name to Chubby Checker 
·   New words, Anchorman, sit-in, cosmonaut, bluegrass, laser, compact car 
·   First appearances, Astroturf, Librium, felt-tip pen, Rayon, OPEC meeting 


1950's Woolworths Soda Fountain Menu




    

Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Richard M. Nixon 

180,671,158 
69.7 years 

$ 6,227/yr 
$ 1.00/hr 

616
685 
566 

$ 92.19 billion 
$ 290.5 billion 
1.4% 
29.6 
5.5% 




$ 16,500.00 
  $ 2,275.00
            $ .57 
            $ .49 
            $ .31 
            $ .20
            $ .04 




Joe Jones 
The Everly Brothers 
Chubby Checker 
The Drifters 
Johnny Preston 
Brenda Lee 
Jimmy Jones 
The Ventures 
The Hollywood Argyles 
Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs 




Frank Sinatra 
Terry Snyder and the All Stars 
Original cast 




Button Down Mind, Bob Newhart 
Bob Newhart 
We Got Us - Eydie Gormé & Steve Lawrence 
Mack the Knife - Ella Fitzgerald  
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles  
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles 
Theme From A Summer Place - Percy Faith 
Theme From Exodus


 

     
  
  
    
  
  

  
  
   
    
   
  
   
  
   
  
  
  





Playhouse 90 (CBS)   
Robert Stack - The Untouchables   
Jane Wyatt - Father Knows Best   




Art Carney Special (NBC)   
Fabulous Fifties (CBS)




The Apartment - Directed By Billy Wilder
Burt Lancaster - in Elmer Gantry
Elizabeth Taylor - in Butterfield 8


                        

Allen Drury 
James Michener 
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa 
Irving Wallace 
John O'Hara 
Marcia Davenport 
John O'Hara 




D.C. Jarvis 
General Foods
Alexander King 
Better Homes & Gardens
William L. Shirer 
Barry Goldwater 




Allen Durry 




Philadelphia 17 - Green Bay 13 
Norm Van Brocklin, Phi., QB & 
Joe Schmidt, Detroit, LB 
Minnesota 
Joe Bellino, Navy, HB 
Washington 17, Minnesota 7 
Missouri 21, Navy 14 
Duke 7, Arkansas 6 
Mississippi 14, Rice 6 


    

BOSTON 4-3 - Coach: Red Auerbach 
St. Louis Hawks - Coach: Ed Macauley 
Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia, C 
Ohio State 25-3 - Coach: Fred Taylor 


 

PITTSBURGH 4-3 - Coach: Danny Murtaugh 
NY Yankees - Coach: Casey Stengel 
Dick Groat, Pit - SS 
Frank Howard, LA -  OF 
Roger Maris, NY -  OF 
Ron Hansen, Bal -  SS 

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