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Most folks alive in the 1960s remember the “big” events – the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, and the Cuban missile crisis. But how about those lesser-known events that occurred during this fascinating decade? This week, Tidbits focuses on occasions you might not know about that happened during the ‘60s. • An item purchased in 1960 for $100 would be equivalent to about $800 today. So consider that the average income in 1960 was $5,315. This would translate into today’s dollars at $42,520. A new house averaged $12,700, equivalent to $101,600 these days. By 1969, the income was $8,540 and the house cost was $15,500. A new car could be purchased for $2,600, a price that increased to $3,270 by 1969. • Chemist Leo Sternbach was responsible for calming the anxieties of millions of Americans with his invention of Valium in 1961, just one of his 241 drug patents. Valium decreases the rate of brain activity, tranquilizing those areas of the brain responsible for sensing fear. Although it was the biggest-selling drug in the nation from 1969 to 1980, it was found to be addictive, with some users dependent on it in just two weeks. Many users were found to depend on Valium for life’s everyday troubles, as well as difficulty experiencing joy. turn the page for more!
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● If you live in New Jersey, you pay eight times as much in real estate taxes as residents of Hawaii do. ● Given the popularity of both Legos and Star Wars, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that the first licensed, themed Lego set was an X-Wing fighter, released in 1999.
• The first James Bond movie “Dr. No” was released in 1962, starring Sean Connery in the first of his seven appearances as the British secret agent. Bond creator Ian Fleming didn’t want Connery in the role, and after viewing the film declared it was, “Dreadful. Simply dreadful.” The film’s budget was $1,000,000, and when costs exceeded that by $100,000, the producers wanted to halt production, fearing they would never make their money back. “Dr. No” went on to gross $59.6 million worldwide. • In July of 1963, the U.S. Post Office introduced the Zone Improvement Plan, or ZIP for short, establishing five-digit codes to improve its mail sorting and delivery systems. The code’s first digit designated the geographical area of the U.S., with zero assigned to the Northeast, increasing up to nine in the far West. The next two digits narrowed the area down to sectional centers, with the final two digits specifying the post offices. This was also the time that the Post Office instituted two-letter state abbreviations. Some locations ended up with noteworthy ZIP codes, including General Electric’s world headquarters in Schenectady, New York, with ZIP 12345. Newton Falls, Ohio, has 44444 and Young America, Minnesota’s mail is addressed to ZIP 55555. In 1964, the U.S. Forest Service’s mascot Smokey Bear was so popular and received so much fan mail that he was given his own ZIP code, 20252. • What were folks watching on TV during the 1960s? One of the most popular series was the prime-time soap opera “Peyton Place,” which aired from 1964 to 1969. Other dramas included “The Fugitive,” “77 Sunset Strip,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” “Perry Mason,” and “Route 66.” On the lighter side, viewers enjoyed the 98 episodes of “Gilligan’s Island,” along with “Hogan’s Heroes,” and “The Monkees.” Continued next page.
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• The space adventures of the starship Enterprise on the NBC series “Star Trek” began on September 8, 1966 and continued for 79 episodes, with the last airing on June 3, 1969. Despite a fans’ letter-writing campaign, NBC cancelled the series, which achieved a much larger viewer audience afterward, when it entered syndication. Fans who became known as “Trekkies” organized conventions to honor the cult classic, which eventually became the most popular syndicated series. • A popular 1994 movie tried to convince us that Forrest Gump was responsible for the invention of the “smiley face” when he wiped his mud-splattered face on a yellow T-shirt. In reality, the image was the creation of American graphic artist Harvey Ross Ball. Ball was hired in 1963 to create an illustration to raise morale among the employees of an insurance company that had undergone several arduous mergers and acquisitions. He designed the image in less than 10 minutes, receiving $45 for his labors. The State Mutual Life Assurance Company issued posters, buttons, and signs embellished with the smiley face, trying to get their workers to smile more. • On January 15, 1967, the Green Bay Packers teamed up against the Kansas City Chiefs at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the very first Super Bowl. Forty million viewers crowded around their television to watch the inaugural sporting event. (Contrast this with the nearly 115 million viewers who watched Super Bowl XLIX in 2015, the most-viewed television broadcast of any kind in American history.) Halftime entertainment was provided by the marching bands from the University of Arizona and Grambling State University, trumpeter Al Hirt, and 300 pigeons, along with a release of 10,000 balloons. The Packers defeated the Chiefs by a score of 35 to 10. Continued next page.
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Have you decided where you’re going to spend your Social Security windfall? The average recipient will see an increase of $5 in monthly benefits in 2017, a whopping 0.3 percent increase. Broken down into real numbers, the average retiree will now receive $1,360 in monthly benefits. Of course, this is a bonus after last year, when we saw no increase whatsoever, while prices around us rose on nearly everything: food, shelter, prescription drugs. The adjustment is based on the annual Consumer Price Index, which apparently rose just enough to get us that $5. If you’re under full retirement age and get Social Security benefits, the maximum income you can make (before they“NATIONAL” start takingWORDS $1 for every $2 you (continued): earn) will go up to $16,920 year. The • French: Chefs know what per it means to year you reach age,means you “french” a foodfull item.retirement It’s a verb that cut into strips, like,before well, french cantoearn upthin to $44,880 they fries. take (And yes, that’s how the finger-friendly poout a dollar for every $3 you earn. Once tato dish took its name.) Green beans are youanother reach item full retirement age, there’s no commonly prepared in this limit on your earnings. manner. Go online to www.ssa.gov/cola more • Maltese: These tiny spaniels arefor easy to identifyDon’t thanksforget to theirtolong, silky coats.and The details. scroll down American Kennelof Club view the history thegroups Cost of Living them with other “Toy Adjustments. It and wasn’t that long ago Dogs” like Pugs that the increase was 3.6 percent (2012) Yorkshire Terriers. Feline aficionados and 5.8 percent (2009). also use the term If you’ll be filing for Medicare in 2017, Maltese to describe butcats because of your that have a si- age won’t be filing formilarly Socialsilky, Security, gray- beware. It’s possible blue coat. you’ll be in that group who will pay • Colombian: This for termMedicare means different more per month thanthings to different people, depending on others who are “held harmless” how fromyou get your “jones.” Narcotics dealers may refer increases. Go to Medicare.gov to readthe to their products as Colombian, although about the 2017is Part B premiums. actual source often unknown. Luckily, the of shall us prefer bit of our legal ColomSo majority ... where we aspend bian, as There in the coffee grown in the South windfall? are approximately 60 American nation. The prevalence of coffee million us who will get isthat extra shops of throughout America proof enough money starting January. $5 in the that many of usinjust can’t get At along morning without a hot of Colombian. apiece, that comes tocup $300 million a • Chinese: The generic term “chinese” now month.
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As Berliners slept on the night of August 12, 1961, soldiers and construction workers labored in East Berlin, tearing up streets that led into West Berlin, erecting concrete posts, and stringing barbed wire, creating a barrier between the two parts of the city. Phone wires between East and West were cut, severing communications out of East Berlin.
If you’ve ever seen the 1994 animated film The Lion King, you’ve seen a meerkat in the form of Timon, who sang “Hakuna matata,” the Swahili phrase that means “no worries.” This week, Tidbits has the real facts about this unusual creature, who really can’t sing at all! • Meerkats are members of the mongoose family with very long bodies and coats of gold, silver, orange, or brown. Unlike Timon, who walks on his hind legs, real meerkats can only stand on their hind legs, but walk on all fours. They use their tail for balancing when standing upright. • The omnivorous meerkats are small animals, only measuring up less than a foot from head to rump. Their tail does add another 9.5 inches to their length. They weigh about the same as a squirrel, around 2 lbs.. When a meerkat is standing on all four feet, its height is only 6 inches. • Meerkats are found in the deserts and grasslands of Africa, specifically in Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Lesotho. Dark patches of fur around their eyes effectively reduce the glare of the desert sun, similar to the result achieved by baseball players who paint dark lines under their eyes. In the mornings, they enjoy basking in the sun or grooming themselves. • The diet of a meerkat is quite varied, as they dine on lizards, birds, bugs, snakes, rodents, eggs, and fruit. Poisonous scorpions are a staple of the meerkat’s diet, and it can catch the scorpion, pull off its deadly stinger in a second, and swallow it. They have a unique immunity to the scorpion’s venom. • These animals have sharp claws that enable them to dig complex underground burrow systems, 6 to 8 feet underground. A meerkat can dig through sand equal to its own weight in a matter of seconds. One burrow system might have as many as 70 different entrances and exits to keep them safe from predators, while providing a cool place out of the punishing heat of the desert sun. While digging, a membrane covers and protects the meerkat’s eyes, and the animal also has the ability to close its ears to keep the dirt out. • Meerkats have an elaborate “sentry” procedure that protects the clan and their domain. All the adults have a turn at guard duty in an hour-long shift, watching for predators while the others forage for food throughout the day. When all is well, the sentry makes peeping sounds. If there is danger, the meerkat has six different alarm calls that indicate the level of urgency. There are more than 20 different calls with different meanings made by the meerkat, including lost calls, feeding calls, and a call to forage. . • Although they might seem friendly, even sharing their burrows with the yellow mongoose and ground squirrels, these animals can be quite aggressive, vicious fighters, sometimes killing the young members of their clan in order to improve their position in the hierarchy. • Thinking of a meerkat as a pet? In the United States, you need a special permit to keep one. They are aggressive toward anyone unfamiliar, are prone to bovine tuberculosis, and have been known to get rabies.
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• At the end of World War II, Germany had been divided between the Allied Powers and the Soviet Union. The Allied powers fostered democracy and a capitalist society in West Germany, with freedom to travel. The result was a rapid post-war economic recovery. The Soviet Union, however, viewing East Germany as a “spoil of war,” quickly moved factory equipment and valuable assets to their own country. East Germany was established as a communist society with few freedoms. • As East Germany’s living conditions became more and more oppressive and the economy deterioraed, by the late 1950s, many had packed up and moved to West Berlin. By 1961, 2.5 million people had fled to the west, depleting the east’s labor force and population. • On the morning of August 13, East Berliners found themselves trapped. The 60,000 laborers who lived in the East but worked in the West could not get to work. Family and friends could no longer cross the border to meet. East Berliners were no longer allowed to attend any type of artistic entertainment, such as the theater or concerts. • The Wall extended through the center of Berlin, then wrapped around West Berlin, for over 100 miles, completely restricting travel between the two areas • Within a very few days, the original concrete post and barbed-wire fence was replaced with a permanent edifice of concrete blocks, topped with barbed wire. In 1965, steel girders and a concrete wall separated the two halves of the country. • A five-year-long upgrade began in 1975, made up of 12-ft x 4-ft. concrete slabs, and a large, slippery pipe around the top to deter any climbing. On the other side a 300-ft. “No Man’s Land” was guarded by soldiers with dogs, electric fencing, watchtowers with giant spotlights, and minefields.
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• Thousands attempted escape from East Berlin. Some brave individuals tried jumping from upper-story windows of apartment buildings bordering the Wall. As the Wall became taller and stronger, elaborate tunnel systems from East German basements were dug. One resourceful group saved scraps of cloth and constructed a hot air balloon that sailed into West Germany. East German soldiers shot anyone who even came close to the Wall. An estimated 200 died in their escape attempts, while about 5,000 are believed to have crossed successfully. • In the late 1980s, political changes came about, as the Eastern Block’s authoritarian power began to weaken. In late 1989, several border checkpoints were opened to East Germans who wanted to escape to the West. The Wall was quickly flooded with people, with some wielding hammers and chisels at the barricade. • The official demolition of the Berlin Wall began on June 13, 1990, and was not completed until 1992. East and West Germany were reunified into a single German state in October of 1990.
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● On Nov. 26, 1941, President Franklin ● On Nov. 27, 1703, an unusual freak D. Roosevelt signs a bill officially storm finally dissipates over England establishing the fourth Thursday in “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous after wreaking havoc for two weeks. adventures.” Alexandre Dumas, The November as Thanksgiving Day. In Packing hurricane-strength winds, the ASRTOCPITRE Three Musketeers 1789, President George Washington storm killed between 10,000 and 30,000 had a holiday of national with proclaimed three horns people, and sank hundreds of Royal NavyA dinosaur Scrambled Word Answer: thanksgiving for the U.S. Constitution. ships. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
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