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1967 Flashback; Economy/Prices, Music, Movies, TV, Sports, News, Books, Potpourri
Topic Started: Jun 20 2011, 11:58 PM (31 Views)
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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
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Communist China Announces It Has H-bomb
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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

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Christiaan Barnard performs first heart transplant
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First black to be appointed to Supreme Court is Thurgood Marshall
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US bombs Hanoi
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Fads; Mickey Mouse watches, saunas, psychedelic stuff
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Carol Stokes, a black, is elected mayor of Cleveland
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Burger King is purchased by Pillsbury
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Coed dorms open in some colleges
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Final episode for The Fugitive is aired, gets a 50% rating
#
The first "Super Bowl" is played in Los Angeles
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Six Day War
#
R. M. Dolby invents way to eliminate background "hiss" in recordings
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Hit songs; "Penny Lane", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Cabaret"
Source:http://www.1960sflashback.com/1967
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