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1966 Flashback; Economy/Prices, Music, Movies, TV, Sports, News, Books, Potpourri
Topic Started: Jun 20 2011, 06:01 PM (98 Views)
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Economy
President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey

Population: 196,560,338
Life expectancy: 70.2 years

Dow-Jones
High: 950
Low: 744

Federal spending: $134.53 billion
Federal debt: $328.5 billion
Inflation: 2.7%
Consumer Price Index: 32.4
Unemployment: 4.5%

Prices
Cost of a new home: $23,300.00
Cost of a new car: $
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.32
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.60
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $0.99

Music
Billboard Top 10
1. I'm A Believer - Monkees
2. Summer In The City - Lovin' Spoonful
3. Wild Thing - Troggs
4. Hanky Panky - Tommy James And The Shondells
5. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
6. Soul And Inspiration - The Righteous Brothers
7. Monday, Monday - Mamas And Papas
8. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
9. Devil With A Blue Dress On - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
10. Good Lovin' - Young Rascals

Top Albums

Doctor Zhivago - Soundtrack
Going Places - Herb Alpert and the Tijuanna Brass
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears - Mamas and the Papas
Rubber Soul - Beatles
The Monkees - Monkees

Grammy Awards
Album of the Year: Sinatra: A Man and His Music, Frank Sinatra
Best Pop Duo or Group: “A Man and a Woman,” Anita Kerr Singers
Best Pop Female Vocal: “If He Walked Into My Life,” Eydie Gormé
Best Pop Male Vocal: “Strangers in the Night,” Frank Sinatra
Record of the Year: “Strangers in the Night,” Frank Sinatra
Song of the Year: “Michelle” John Lennon and Paul McCartney

$$$ -Top Movie Money Makers

The Wild Angels $6,500,000
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly $6,100,000
Paradise, Hawaiian Style $2,500,000

Other New Movie Releases
A Man for All Seasons
Alfie
Blow-up
Closely Watched Trains
Fahrenheit 451
Georgy Girl
Harper
Khartoum
Madame X
Morgan!
The Professionals
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Academy Awards
Best Actor: Paul Scofield: A Man for All Seasons
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann: A Man for All Seasons
Best Picture: Fred Zinnemann: A Man for All Seasons
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau: The Fortune Cookie
Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Television
Americas Top 20 TV Favorites
1 )Bonanza
2 )The Red Skelton Hour
3 )The Andy Griffith Show
4 )The Lucy Show
5 )The Jackie Gleason Show
6 )Green Acres
7 )Daktari
8 )Bewitched
9 )The Beverly Hillbillies
10 )Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
11 )The Virginian
12 )The Lawrence Welk Show
13 )The Ed Sullivan Show
14 )The Dean Martin Show
15 )Family Affair
16 )Smothers Brothers
17 )The CBS Friday Night Movie
18 )Hogan's Heroes
19 )Walt Disney's World of Color
20 )Saturday Night at the Movies

Emmy Awards

Drama
Best Drama - Mission: Impossible (CBS)
Best Actor - Bill Cosby, I Spy
Best Actress - Barbara Stanwyck, The Big Valley
Supporting Actor - James Daly, Hallmark Hall of Fame: Eagle in a Cage
Supporting Actress - Lee Grant, Peyton Place

Comedy
Best Comedy - The Monkees
Best Actor - Dick Van Dyke, The Dick Van Dyke Show
Best Actress - Lucille Ball, The Lucy Show
Supporting Actor - Don Knotts, The Andy Griffith Show: “The Return of Barney Fife”
Supporting Actress - Alice Pearce, Bewitched
Best Variety- The Andy Williams Show (NBC)

Sports

Football
Superbowl I : Green Bay 35 - Kansas City 10

Pro MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB & Don Meredith, Dallas, QB

College Football: Notre Dame

Heisman Trophy: Steve Spurrier, Florida, QB

Rose Bowl: Purdue 14, USC 13
Orange Bowl: Florida 27, Georgia Tech 12
Cotton Bowl: Georgia 24, SMU 9
Sugar Bowl: Alabama 34, Nebraska 7

Basketball

NBA Championship
Winner: BOSTON 4-3 (LWWWLLW) - Coach: Red Auerbach
Opposing Team: LA Lakers - Coach: Fred Schaus

NBA MVP: Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia, C Ave Score: 33.5

NCAA National Champions: Texas Western 28-1 - Coach: Don Haskins

Baseball
World Series
Winner: Baltimore 4-0 - Coach: Hank Bauer
Opposing Team: LA DODGERS - Coach: Walter Alston

National League
MVP: Roberto Clemente, Pit - OF
Rookie of the Year: Tommy Helms, Cin - 3B

American League
MVP: Frank Robinson, Bal - OF
Rookie of the Year: Tommie Agee, Chi - OF

News

News Headlines
#
Apollo Test Launch Kills Chaffe, Grissom, White
#
B-52 And Jet Tanker Collide- 7 Die 4H-Bombs Lost 3 Recovered
#
Russia Makes First Soft Moon Landing
#
Lost H bomb Found Off Spanish Coast
#
Supreme Court Rules On Rights Of Accused In Miranda Case
#
Sniper In Texas Shoots 45 from Tower
#
Long Time Favorit Buster Keaton Dies
#
Auto Critic Nader Gets Apology From GM
#
Lost H-bomb Found Off Coast Of Spain
#
Artificial Pump Is Implanted In Heart

In The News
#
Stokely Carmichael is elected head of Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
#
Walt Disney dies
#
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton star in "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf"
#
Green Bay Packers under Vince Lombardi win record third straight NFL title
#
Jim Brown ( Cleveland) retires with a career rushing record of 12,312 yards
#
Mini Skirts and Bell Bottoms are the in dress code
#
James Meredith is shot on civil rights march
#
Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow are wed in Vagas ceremony

Books
Fiction Best Sellers

Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
The Adventurers - Harold Robbins
The Secret of Santa Vittoria - Robert Crichton
Capable of Honor - Allen Drury
The Double Image - Helen McInnes
The Fixer - Bernard Malamud
Tell No Man - Adela Rogers St. Johns
Tai-Pan - James Clavell
The Embezzler - Louis Auchincloss
All in the Family - Edwin O'Connor

Nonfiction Best Sellers

How to Avoid Probate - Norman F. Dacey
Human Sexual Response - William Howard Masters, Virginia E. Johnson
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Games People Play - Eric Berne, M.D.
A Thousand Days - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Everything But Money - Sam Levenson
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language
Rush to Judgement - Mark Lane
The Last Battle - Cornelius Ryan
Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints - Phyllis Diller

Pulitzer Fiction
Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Anne Porter

Pulitzer Non-fiction
Wandering Through Winter, Edwin Way Teale

Potpourri

#
Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim and changes his name to Muhammad Ali
#
3.51 min. mile is run by Jim Ryun
#
Coach Vince Lombardi leads Green Bay Packers to a third straight NFL title
#
Biodegradable detergents are introduced
#
Men spend on how they look, No longer fashionable to look like you just had a hair cut
#
New Words, Black Power, flash cube, flower children, glitch, hippy, pop, zap
#
Fads, Ouiji boards, astrology, Batman stuff
#
Green Berets get our country's attention in Vietnam war
#
Draft calls 50,000 men a month to enlist
#
Bishops, give Catholic's OK to eat meat on Fridays except for Lent
#
Cesar Chavez units farm workers, strike against grape growers
#
James Meredith is shot walking from Memphis to Jackson
#
Masters and Johnson's sexual studies change public view
#
DJ's screen records for hidden drug and satanic meaning
#
"Suggested for mature audiences" starts due to "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf"
#
California begins pollution standards for cars
#
Jimi Hendrix popularizes the electric guitar

Source:http://www.1960sflashback.com/1966/
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