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Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President of the U.S. Served from Jan. 20, 1953 to Jan. 20, 1961
“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.” — Eisenhower
1960 Chevrolet Corvette
AVERAGE COST OF LIVING
Richard Nixon 36th Vice President of the U.S. Served from Jan. 20, 1953 to Jan. 20, 1961 World events
• The cold war is in full swing with Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table at the UN telling us he would bury us. • The Berlin Wall is under construction and the Soviet Union was ahead in the Space Race. • Fidel Castro confiscates $770 million of U.S. property • The sexual revolution of the Sixties begins with women using birth control pills and the first Playboy Club opening in Chicago.
• 900 U.S. military advisers are sent to Vietnam. • Israelis Kidnap Adolf Eichmann from Argentina to Jerusalem • Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology. • Capt. Gary Powers U-2 Spy Plane Shot Down Over Russia
U.S. News
• John F Kennedy wins presidential Election. • Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of six year old Ruby Bridges suffering a hail of racial epitaphs and tomatoes as she integrated the first school in New Orleans. • Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of six
U.S. Troops land in Vietnam
BORN THIS YEAR: Julianne Moore, actress. Above left: James Spader, Actor; Jennifer Grey, actress; Hugo Weaving, actor; Darryl Hannah, actress.
year old Ruby Bridges suffering a hail of racial epitaphs and tomatoes as she integrated the first school in New Orleans. • The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers are going to be sent to Vietnam • In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight after having won the Gold Medal in Rome in the Olympic games • The United States launches the world’s first nuclear powered Aircraft Carrier the USS Enterprise.
Technology 1960
• France tests its first atomic bomb in Sahara and joins US, UK and USSR as Nuclear Power • Over one hundred million television sets in use worldwide. • Aluminum Cans used for the first time
• The MOT Test is introduced in Britain • US Experimental rocket powered airplane travels at 2,200 MPH • Xerox introduces the first Commer-
cial Document reproduction Machine • The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1. • Dr Kazuo Hashimoto Invents the Ansafone sold in the USA as a Automatic Telephone Answering Machine
Income per year ....... $5,315 Minimum wage ........... $5.15 New house ............ $12,700 Monthly rent .................... $88 New car .................... $2,600 Gallon of gas .................. 25¢ Dozen eggs .................... 57¢ Gallon of milk .................. 49¢ Loaf of bread .................. 20¢ First-class stamp .............. 4¢ Movie ticket ................. $1.00
Movies
• The 3rd Voice • Five Branded Women • 13 Ghosts • The Adventurs of Huckleberry Finn • The Alamo • All Yough Men
Music
• Elvis Presley, “It’s Now or Never” • Ray Charles, “Georgia on my Mind • Percy Faith, “A Summer Place”
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