1962 Annual History Facts Still Burning: The Centralia Mine Fire has been burning in Pennsylvania since 1962. The Top Song was I Can’t Stop Loving You by Ray Charles The Big Movies included How The West Was Won, Bon Voyage! and The Manchurian Candidate Price of Ford Galaxy automobile in 1962: $2,645.00 19-inch Lawn Mower: […]
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1962 Books & Bestsellers 1962 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter 2. Dearly Beloved by Anne Morrow Lindbergh 3. A Shade of Difference by Allen Drury 4. Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk 5. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 6. Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler 7. Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II
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1961 Annual History Facts Politics: The Twenty-third Amendment to the US Constitution extends the right to vote in presidential elections to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College as if it were a state. The Top Song was Tossin’ and Turnin’ by Bobby Lewis The Big
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1961 Books & Bestsellers 1961 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone 2. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4. Mila 18 by Leon Uris 5. The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins 6. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 7. Winnie Ille Pu by A.A. Milne translated by Alexander Lenard (Latin) 8. Daughter of
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1960 Annual History Facts Politics: College students in Greensboro, North Carolina, organized the first popularized sit-in for Civil Rights at a Woolworth’s lunch counter. The Top Song was The Theme From “A Summer Place” by Percy Faith The Big Movies included Swiss Family Robinson, The Alamo and G.I. Blues The price of a Cord of
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1960 Books & Bestsellers 1960 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 2. Hawaii by James A. Michener 3. The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa 4. The Chapman Report by Irving Wallace 5. Ourselves To Know by John O’Hara 6. The Constant Image by Marcia Davenport 7. The Lovely Ambition by Mary Ellen Chase 8. The Listener by Taylor Caldwell 9. Trustee from the Toolroom by
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1959 Annual History Facts Politics: Cuban President Batista resigned and left Cuba, and then communist-backed Fidel Castro took over. The Top Song was Mack The Knife by Bobby Darin The Big Movies included Ben-Hur, Sleeping Beauty, and Some Like It Hot Price of Alcoa Aluminum wrap, 75-foot roll in 1959: 69 cents The World Population
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1959 Books & Bestsellers 1959 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Exodus by Leon Uris 2. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 3. Hawaii by James Michener 4. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 5. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence 6. The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene L. Burdick 7. Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell 8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 9. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to
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1958 Annual History Facts Politics: China began the “Great Leap Forward” modernization program, and an estimated 20 million people died of starvation. The Top Song was At The Hop by Danny & The Juniors The Big Movies included South Pacific, Auntie Mame and Vertigo Price of an RCA Whirlpool refrigerator, eight cu ft in 1958:
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1958 Books & Bestsellers 1958 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 2. Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver 3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 4. Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis 5. From the Terrace by John O’Hara 6. Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson 7. Ice Palace by Edna Ferber 8. The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton 9. The Enemy Camp by
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