1965

	"1965"
	1965 PRICES Average Income: $6,469.00 New Car: 2,614.00 New House: 13,600.00 Loaf of Bread: $.21 Gallon of Gas: $.31 Gallon of Milk: $1.05 Gold per Ounce: $35.00 Silver per Ounce: $1.29 Dow Jones Average: 840.59 to 969.26
		INTERESTING FACTS President: Lyndon B. Johnson Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey Miss America: Vonda Kay Van Dyke of Phoenix, AZ Minimum Wage: $1.25 Life Expectancy: 70.2 years
	MOVIES Best Picture: “Sound of Music” Best Actor: Lee Marvin in “Cat Ballou” Best Actress: Julie Christie in “Darling”
		MUSIC King of the Road A Taste of Honey It Was a Very Good Year A Hard Day’s Night The Shadow of Your Smile
	SPORTS NCAA basketball champs: UCLA World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers U.S. Open golf: Gary Player NBA Basketball: Boston Celtics Heisman Trophy: Mike Garrett, Southern Cal Indy 500: Jim Clark (150.686 mph) Kentucky Derby: Lucky Debonair (ridden by W. Shoemaker) Boxing: (Heavyweight) Cassius Clay KO’s Sonny Liston Cassius Clay KO’s Floyd Patterson Boston Marathon: Morio Shigematsu (2 hrs. 16, min, 33 sec.)
		SIGNS OF THE TIMES: S & H Green Stamps Cinerama featuring “The Battle of the Bulge” The Beatles Jerry Lewis as the “Disorderly Orderly” Elvis and Mary Ann Mobley in “Harum Scarum” The Danny Kaye Show Famous ads: Josephine, Comet’s lady plumber, admiral TV’s, the Plymouth Fury, and Ivory Liquid
	World News Headlines U.S. TROOPS IN VIETNAM INCREASED FROM 20,000 TO 190,000 THE GREAT STATESMAN, WINSTON CHURCHILL,DIES AT 90 SOVIET COSMONAUT TAKES FIRST WALK IN SPACE MARCOS INAUGURATED PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT INDIA-PAKISTAN HOSTILITY ERUPTS IN WAR
		National News Headlines PRESIDENT JOHNSON SIGNS MEDICARE BILL RACE RIOTS RAGE IN WATTS FOR FIVE DAYS AMERICANS SEE UFO’S IN FOUR STATES POWER FAILURE CAUSES BLACKOUT IN NINE STATES TWO AMERICAN SPACE CRAFT MAKE RENDEZVOUS U.S. ASTRONAUTS MAKE SEVERAL SPACE FLIGHTS AND SEVERAL SPACE WALKS
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