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News Event- Kennedy vs. Nixon
Fact 1) This was the first presidential campaign to be successful on television.
Fact 2) Kennedy’s campaign used the medium perfectly while Nixon’s did not
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Popular Movie- Spartacus
Fact 1) Movie first released in 1960 but re-released in 1967 and in 1991
Fact 2) Spartacus was nominated for six Academy Awards and won four
Fact 3) Russell Metty received the Oscar for Best Cinematography, though it’s rumored that most of the work was done by Kubrick himself -
Popular Cartoon- Looney Tunes
Fact 1) it was originally aimed at adults
Fact 2) when it was first aired it was censored
Fact 3) From 1960 to the late 1990s, the Warner Brothers cartoons were distributed for U.S. television in four packages.
Looney tunes was first popular between 1955 and 1960. -
Chevrolet 1960 Pickup
1) The 1960 model of the Chevrolet pickup was a redesigned model.
2)It was the end of V8 Engine Era for the Chevrolet.
3)One-ton, four- wheel-drive models were dropped from production and Chevrolet only produced four-wheel-drive 3-quarter- tons and half- tons. -
U.S. President John F. Kennedy
1)Was in office during the creation of Peace Corps and Bay of Pigs
2)He negotiated the Nuclear Test-Ban treaty and initiated the alliance for progress
3) He died on November 22, 1963 -
Beatles-Popular artist or band in the 60s
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Music
Fact 1) The Beatles were one of the first bands in the "British Invasion"
Fact 2) The Rolling Stones was a "roots rock" and "hard rock" band
Fact 3) The Animals never had a hard box set devoted to their hard work -
Toys in the '60s
Fact 1) 1963 easy-bake oven used an incadescent light bulb to heat food.
Fact 2) Etch-a-sketch came out just before the holiday season
Fact 3) G.I. Joe's led to the term of the 'action figure' -
Popular actor/actress-Gregory Peck
Fact 1)was named among the greatest male actors all time by American Film Institutes
Fact 2) in 1960′s he made 10 films during that decade, such as; The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, How the West Was Won and Mackenna’s Gold.
Fact 3) in 1963 he starred in "To kill a Mockingbird' -
Fashion
1) Women Fashion in the early 60s consisted of: pillbox hats, pastel suits with short boxy jackets and oversized buttons, and simple geometric dresses or shifts.
2) Mary Quant's advent of the mini shirt changed the world of 1960s fashion-1964
3) Towards the end of the decade, the androgynous hippie style emerged, influenced by the Vietnam War. -
Form of Technology in the 1960s
Fact 1) Douglas Engelbart holds the invention that computer users across the globe rely on to communicate with their PC.
Fact 2) His creation was made from wood and had two gear-wheels that sat perpendicular to one another so as to allow movement on one axis
Fact 3 )when you moved the mouse the horizontal wheel moved sideways and the vertical wheel slid along the surface. -
Famous Athlete- Willis Mays
fact 1) 52 homeruns in 1965
fact 2) 350 homeruns in the decade
fact 3) Led San-Francisco to the world series in ’62 and won MVP in ’65
