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For What It's Worth

The cost of a new house $12,700

The mortgage interest rate 1.8%

The cost of new car $2,600

The average income $5,315
A gallon of gas 25 cents

A gallon of milk 50 cents

A US Postage stamp 4 cents

Unemployment Rate 5.5%

It was not until 1960 that the Supreme Court began to enforce integration they had unanimously decided upon with Brown vs. Education in 1954.

Norman Rockwell's famous painting of six year old Ruby Bridges suffering a hail of racial epitaphs and tomatoes as she integrated the first school in New Orleans.

We are doing the twist with Chubby Checker and laughing at Don Knotts  on black & white TV.

Nightly news aired for 15 minutes at 7:30pm EST. The anchors are Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC, John Daly on ABC and Douglas Edwards on CBS.

The Kennedy - Nixon debate is the story of the year which was to portend the new power of television in our electoral process. What we saw became more important than what we read or what we heard.

John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson win the Presidency with one of the smallest margins in history - 113,000 votes out of 68.3 million.

The first rumblings of an organized civil rights movement begin at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The Class of 1960

The World 1960

The cold war is in full swing with Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table at the UN telling us he would bury us

Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology.

The Berlin Wall is under construction and the Soviet Union was ahead in the Space Race

Capt. Gary Powers U-2 Spy Plane Shot Down Over Russia 

France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara desert to join the US, UK and USSR as a Nuclear Power

Israelis Kidnap Adolf Eichman from Argentina to Jerusalem 

Fidel Castro confiscates $770 million of U.S. property

900 U.S. military advisers are sent to Vietnam.

The sexual revolution of the Sixties begins with women using birth control pills and the first Playboy Club opening in Chicago.

Nobel prizes 1960

Physics - Donald Arthur Glaser
Chemistry - Willard Frank Libby
Physiology or Medicine - Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Brian Medawar
Literature - Saint-John Perse
Peace - Albert John Luthuli

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