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| 1967 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: 198,712,056 Life expectancy: 70.5 years Dow-Jones High: 943 Low: 786 Federal spending: $157.46 billion Federal debt: $340.4 billion Inflation: 2.8% Consumer Price Index: 33.4 Unemployment: 3.8% Prices Cost of a new home: $24,600.00 Cost of a new car: $ Median Household Income: $7,143.00 Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05 Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.33 Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.49 Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.03 Music Billboard Top 10 1. Little Bit O' Soul - The Music Explosion 2. Letter, The - The Box Tops 3. Happy Together - The Turtles 4. Soul Man - Sam & Dave 5. Windy - The Association 6. Respect - Aretha Franklin 7. Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock 8. I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James And The Shondells 9. Groovin' - The Young Rascals 10. Gimme Some Lovin' - The Spencer Davis Group Top Albums Supremes' Greatest Hits - Diana Ross More of the Monkees - Monkees Sounds Like - Herb Albert and the Tijuanna Brass Grammy Awards Album of the Year: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles Best New Artist: Bobbie Gentry Best Pop Duo or Group: “Up, Up and Away,” 5th Dimension Best Pop Female Vocal: “Ode to Billie Joe,” Bobbie Gentry Best Pop Male Vocal: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” Glen Campbell Record of the Year: “Up, Up and Away,” 5th Dimension Song of the Year: “Up, Up and Away” Movies $$$ -Top Movie Money Makers The Jungle Book $141,843,612 The Graduate $104,397,102 Born Losers $36,000,000 I AM Curious $20,238,100 Other New Movie Releases A Fistful of Dollars Accident Barefoot in the Park Bonnie and Clyde Cool Hand Luke El Dorado Guess Who's Coming to Dinner In Cold Blood In the heat of the night Reflections in a Golden Eye The Dirty Dozen The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The Night of the Generals The War Wagon Two for the Road Academy Awards Best Actor: Rod Steiger: In the Heat of the Night Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Best Director: Mike Nichols: The Graduate Best Picture: Walter Mirisch: In the Heat of the Night Best Supporting Actor: George Kennedy: Cool Hand Luke Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons: Bonnie and Clyde Television Americas Top 20 TV Favorites 1 )The Andy Griffith Show 2 )The Lucy Show 3 )Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. 4 )Gunsmoke 5 )Family Affair 6 )Bonanza 7 )The Red Skelton Hour 8 )The Dean Martin Show 9 )The Jackie Gleason Show 10 )Saturday Night at the Movies 11 )Bewitched 12 )The Beverly Hillbillies 13 )The Ed Sullivan Show 14 )The Virginian 15 )The CBS Friday Night Movie 16 )Green Acres 17 )The Lawrence Welk Show 18 )Smothers Brothers 19 )Gentle Ben 20 )Tuesday Night at the Movies Emmy Awards Drama Best Drama - Mission: Impossible (CBS) Best Actor - Bill Cosby, I Spy Best Actress - Barbara Bain, Mission: Impossible Supporting Actor - Eli Wallach, Xerox Special: The Poppy Is Also a Flower Supporting Actress - Agnes Moorehead, Wild, Wild West Comedy Best Comedy - Get Smart Best Actor - Don Adams, Get Smart! Best Actress - Lucille Ball, The Lucy Show Supporting Actor - Don Knotts, The Andy Griffith Show: “Barney Comes to Mayberry” Supporting Actress - Frances Bavier, The Andy Griffith Show Best Variety- The Andy Williams Show (NBC) Sports Football Superbowl II : Green Bay 33 - Oakland 14 Pro MVP: Johnny Unitas, Baltimore, QB College Football: USC Heisman Trophy: Gary Beban, UCLA, QB Rose Bowl: USC 14, Indiana 3 Orange Bowl: Oklahoma 26, Tennessee 24 Cotton Bowl: Texas A&M 20, Alabama 16 Sugar Bowl: LSU 20, Wyoming 13 Basketball NBA Championship Winner: PHILADELPHIA 76ERS 4-2 (WWLWLW) - Coach: Alex Hannum Opposing Team: SF Warriors - Coach:Bill Sharman NBA MVP: Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia, C Ave Score: 24.1 NCAA National Champions: UCLA 30-0 - Coach: John Wooden Baseball World Series Winner: ST.L. CARDINALS 4-3 (WLWWLLW) - Coach: Red Schoendienst Opposing Team: Boston Red Sox - Coach: Dick Williams National League MVP: Orlando Cepeda, St.L - 1B Rookie of the Year: Tom Seaver, NY - P American League MVP: Carl Yastrzemski, Bos - OF Rookie of the Year: Rod Carew, Min - 2B News News Headlines # Communist China Announces It Has H-bomb # Christiaan Barnard Performs First Heart Transplant in Captown South Africa # US Bombers Raid Hanoi # Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's Daughter Defects To West # Newark Black Riots End After Six Days 26 Dead # Detroit Riots End after 8 Days 43 Dead # 3 Astronauts Die In Apollo I Fire On Launch Pad # US Suffers highest Weekly Casualties # Draft Board Refuses Exemption For Ali # Man Said To Be Boston Strangler Is Recaptured # Stalin's Daughter Defects # Dr. Christian Barnard Does First Heart Transplant In Cape Town South Africa In The News # Troop level in Vietnam reaches 525,000 # Anti War protesters make night march to Pentagon # Expo "67" opens in Montreal # Dow high 943 low 786 # Rene Favaloro, Cleveland Clinic develops first coronary bypass operation # Ali won't serve, loses title # Israel smashes Arabs in six day war # Jane Mansfield dies in car crash Books Fiction Best Sellers The Arrangement - Elia Kazan The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron The Chosen - Chaim Potok Topaz - Leon Uris Christy - Catherine Marshall The Eighth Day - Thornton Wilder Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin The Gabriel Hounds - Mary Stewart The Exhibitionist - Henry Sutton Nonfiction Best Sellers Death of a President - William Manchester Misery is a Blind Date - Johnny Carson Games People Play - Eric Berne, M.D. A Modern Priest Looks at His Out-Dated Church - Father James Kavanaugh Everything But Money - Sam Levenson Our Crowd - Stephen Birmingham Phyllis Diller's Marriage Manual Stanyan Street (poetry), Rod McKuen Edgar Cayce - The Sleeping Prophet - Jess Stearn Better Homes and Gardens Favorite Ways in Chicken Pulitzer Fiction The Fixer, Bernard Malamud Pulitzer Non-fiction The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, David Brion Davis Potpourri # Christiaan Barnard performs first heart transplant # First black to be appointed to Supreme Court is Thurgood Marshall # US bombs Hanoi # Fads; Mickey Mouse watches, saunas, psychedelic stuff # Carol Stokes, a black, is elected mayor of Cleveland # Burger King is purchased by Pillsbury # Coed dorms open in some colleges # Final episode for The Fugitive is aired, gets a 50% rating # The first "Super Bowl" is played in Los Angeles # Six Day War # R. M. Dolby invents way to eliminate background "hiss" in recordings # Hit songs; "Penny Lane", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Cabaret" Source:http://www.1960sflashback.com/1967 |
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