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| 1966 Flashback; Economy/Prices, Music, Movies, TV, Sports, News, Books, Potpourri | |
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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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