E C O N O M Y
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- Average US yearly income was $7,850
- Gas cost $.34.
- Average US house was $14,950.
- Average UK house was £4,344.
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N E W S
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- North Vietnam begins the Tet offensive.
- Massacre at My Lai occurs.
- US orders an end to bombing in North Vietnam.
- Martin Luther King, jr. assassinated.
- Senator Kennedy assassinated.
- France announces it now has nuclear weapons.
- US nuclear submarine Scorpion sinks in the Atlantic.
- Warsaw Pact forced invade Czechoslovakia to quash the Prague Spring reforms.
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T R I V I A
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- London Bridge sold and moved to Arizona.
- Boeing 747 makes first flight.
- 60 Minutes starts making people sweat from questions and camera lights.
- The first Big Mac was sold - it cost 49 cents.
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F I L M
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- 2001, A Space Odyssey left us awed and a bit confused.
- Romeo and Juliet made Shakespeare 'with it'.
- Bullitt gave us car chases in movies. It was awesome!
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