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News Headlines This Week: |
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Jun 28 - 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
Jun 29 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open
Jun 29 - KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
Jun 30 - US stops sugar import from Cuba
Jun 30 - Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
Jul 1 - Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense," premieres in Basel
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Songs for 1960 |
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Running Bear
by Johnny Preston
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Are You Lonesome Tonight?
by Elvis Presley
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Stuck On You
by Elvis Presley
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Teen Angel
by Mark Dinning
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Theme from A Summer Place
by Percy Faith
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My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own
by Connie Francis
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It's Now or Never
by Elvis Presley
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Cathy's Clown
by Everly Brothers
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Save the Last Dance for Me
by Drifters
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| 1960 Prices |
US
President |
| Bread: |
$0.20/loaf |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Milk: |
$1.04/gal |
US
Vice President |
| Eggs: |
$0.90/doz |
Richard M. Nixon |
| Car: |
$2,275 |
Academy Award Winners
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| Gas: |
$0.31/gal |
| Best Picture: | The Apartment |
| | Directed By Billy Wilder |
| Best Actor: | Burt Lancaster |
| | in Elmer Gantry |
| Best Actress: | Elizabeth Taylor |
| | in Butterfield 8 |
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| House: |
$18,500 |
| Stamp: |
$0.04/ea |
| Avg Income: |
$6,227/yr |
| Min Wage: |
$1.00/hr |
| DOW Avg: |
616 |
| People born on June 28 |
| 1926 - Mel Brooks comedian/actor/director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs) |
| 1946 - Gilda Radner Detroit, comedienne (SNL-Baba Wawa) |
| 1969 - Danielle Brisebois Bkln NY, actress (Archie's Place, Big Bad Mama 2) |
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On TV in 1960 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents |
Leave it to Beaver |
Bonanza |
| The Flinstones |
The Twilight Zone |
Perry Mason |
| I Love Lucy |
The Andy Griffith Show |
The Ed Sullivan Show |
| Gunsmoke |
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Hot New Toys in 1960 |
| Give-A-Show Projector |
Atomic Cape Canaveral Playset |
Aggravation |
| Etch-A-Sketch |
Hi-Ho! Cherry-O |
Mr. Machine |
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Top Books in 1960 |
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The Alexandria Quartet
by Lawrence Durrell
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Onion John
by Joseph Krumgold
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