DO YOU REMEMBER?
TOP TEN SONGS
1. Hey Jude - The Beatles
2. Love is Blue - Paul Mauriat
3. Young Girl - Lemon Gap
4. Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
5. Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
6. Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
7. People Got to Be Free - The Rascals
8. Green Tambourine - Lemon Pipers
9. This Guy's in Love With You - Herb Alpert
10. Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells
U.S.A. STATISTICS (appr)
|
1968 |
1998 |
|
| Population |
200,706,000 |
275,000,000 |
| 3 Bedroom Home | $ 24,700.00 | $ 120,000.00++ |
| Average income |
$ 8,633.00 |
$ 25,000.00 |
| New Ford |
$ 3,201.00 |
$ 23,000.00 + |
| Gas (1 gal) | $ .34 | $ 1.10 |
| Bread (1 lb) | $ .22 | $ .99 |
| Milk (1 gal) | $ 1.22 | $ 2.50 |
ACADEMY AWARDS
Best Picture - Oliver
Nominee - Funny Girl, A Lion in Winter, Rachel Rachel,
Romeo & Juliet
Best Actor - Cliff Robertson (Charly)
Best Actress - Katherine Hepburn ( A Lion in Winter)
Barbara Streisand (Funny Girl)
SPORTS
Super Bowl II - Green Bay 33,
Oakland 14
World Series - Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals
in 7 games
Olympic golds - Bill Toomey - decathlon, Peggy Fleming - figure skating
George Foreman - boxing, Bob Beamon - long jump,
Dick Fosbury - high jump
Indy 500 - Bobby Unser won the 52nd Memorial Day race
NBC TV - Cut the Jets-Raider game with 1:08 minutes left to show Heidi.
EVENTS
Jan 23 - U.S.S. Pueblo captured by N. Korea
Jan 30 - Viet Cong Launch Tet offensive
Sgt
Freddie Gonzales - Medal Of Honor
March 31 - LBJ announces he will not run for President
April 4 - Martin Luther King Jr assassinated
23 - Columbia students seize university buildings
June 6 - Robert Kennedy assassinated
Aug 8 - Richard Nixon nominated at Miami convention
20 - Soviet tanks roll into Chechoslovakia, ending Prague Spring
6-29 - Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention
Oct 12-27 - Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City
Nov. - Nixon elected President
Dec 22 - Pueblo crew set free
24-25 - Apollo 8 circles the moon