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THE CENTAUR
Novel by John updike -
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•16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
•Betty Friedan Publishes The Feminine Mystique
•Buddhist Monk Sets Himself on Fire in Protest
•First Dr. Who Episode Airs
•First Woman in Space
•Great Train Robbery in England
•"Hot Line" Established Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
•JFK Assassinated
•March on Washington
•Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
•Medgar Evers Is Murdered -
Telephone Poles and Other Poems
poems -
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•Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
•Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion
•Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
•Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure
•Italy Asks for Help to Stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa
•Japan's First Bullet Train Line Opens
•Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
•Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued -
assorted prose
essay and nonfiction -
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•British Sea Gem Oil Rig Collapses
•Los Angeles Riots
•Malcolm X Assassinated
•Miniskirt First Appears
•Nicolae Ceausescu Comes to Power in Romania
•New York City Great Blackout
•The Rolling Stones’ Mega Hit Song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
•U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam -
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•Nazi Albert Speer Released From Spandau Prison
•Black Panther Party Established
•First Kwanzaa Celebrated
•Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
•Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
•National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded
•Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
•Two Multi-Ton Chunks of the Mundrabilla Meteorite Found -
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•Australian Prime Minister Disappears
•Che Guevara Killed
•First Heart Transplant
•First Super Bowl
•Six-Day War in the Middle East
•Stalin's Daughter Defects
•Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch
•Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice -
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•Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery
•Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
•My Lai Massacre
•Nerve Gas Leak in Utah Kills 6,000 Sheep
•Prague Spring
•Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
•Spy Ship USS Pueblo Captured
•Tet Offensive
•Zodiac Killer Strikes -
COUPLES
Novel -
Midpoint and Other Poems
Poems -
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•ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
•Manson Family Murders
•Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
•Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
•Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
•Sesame Street First Airs
•Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO -
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•Aswan High Dam Completed
•Beatles Break Up
•Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
•Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
•Kent State Shootings -
Bech: A Book
Updike wrote several related stories about a minor novelist named Henry Bech. -
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•London Bridge Brought to the U.S.
•United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency
•VCRs Introduced -
RABBIT REDUX
Novel. Rabbit confronts such issues of the late 1960s as drug use, racial violence, and the Vietnam War -
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•M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers
•Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
•Pocket Calculators Introduced
•Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
•Watergate Scandal Begins -
MUSEUMS AND WOMEN
Novel -
Seventy Poems
Poems -
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•Roe vs Wade Legalizes Abortion in the U.S.
•Paul Getty Kidnapped
•Sears Tower Built
•U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
•U.S. Vice President Resigns
