Remember When 1957

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Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President of the U.S. (Rep.) Served from Jan. 20, 1953 to Jan. 20, 1961

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

AVERAGE COST OF LIVING

Richard Nixon 36th Vice President of the U.S. (Rep.) Served from Jan. 20, 1953 to Jan. 20, 1961

World events

U.S. news

• Egypt re-opens the • Toyota starts selling Suez Canal cars in the U.S.; the first is • Malaya gains indethe Toyopet Crown ican students from entering pendence from Britain • Portable radar devices Central High School in Little • Asian Flu pandemic used to enforce speed limRock on Sept. 4 and shortly • Windscale nuclear its after, Federal troops charge power plant accident in • Martin Luther King defiant protesters with fixed UK Jr. heads nationwide rebayonets to ensure the students • South Vietnam atsistance to can attend tacked by Viet Cong gueracial segrerillas gation and Viet Cong Technology Guerillas • Treat of Rome (fordiscrimina• Ultrasound scanning mation of the European tion pioneered in Scotland Economic Community) • Federal • First nuclear reactor • This year was the peak of Baby troops sent to Arkansas plan opens for production Boomer years to enforce anti-segregaof electricity in Pennsyl• Singapore gains self rule tion laws Laika in Sputnik 2 vania • Foot and Mouth disease in Eng• Hurricane Audrey • Soviets test H Bomb land reaches epidemic proportions hits the Gulf Coast • Russia launches first with 30,000 animals slaughtered • The National Guard, on the order artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 • Physician Francois Duvalier, Papa of Governor Orval Faubus, is used to • Great Britain tests first hydrogen Doc, becomes president of Haiti prevent nine African-Amerbomb on Christmas Island • Soviets launch Sputnik 2 with the first animal to enter space, a dog named Laika

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

Movies

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

TV shows

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¢

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

• 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

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