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Sunday, July 21, 1968
Top News Headlines This Week:
Jul 21 - 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley TX Jul 21 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational Jul 21 - Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman Jul 23 - Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt Jul 23 - PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane Jul 23 - Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
Top Songs for 1968
The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding I Heard It Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye
People Got to Be Free by Rascals Mrs. Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel
Love Is Blue by Paul Mauriat Hey Jude by Beatles
Love Child by Diana Ross & the Supremes Honey by Bobby Goldsboro
This Guy's In Love with You by Herb Alpert Tighten Up by Archie Bell & the Drells
1968 Prices US President
Bread: $0.22/loaf Lyndon B. Johnson
Milk: $1.21/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $1.12/doz Hubert H. Humphrey
Car: $2,450 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.34/gal Best Picture: Oliver!
Produced By John Wolf
Best Actor: Cliff Robertson
in Charly
Best Actress: Katherine Hepburn/barb Streisand
in Lion In Winter/funny Girl
House: $26,600
Stamp: $0.06/ea
Avg Income: $9,670/yr
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 944
People born on July 21
1899 - Ernest Hemmingway Oak Park, for whom the bell tolled... (Nobel 1954)
1924 - Don Knotts Morgantown WV, actor (Amdy Griffth Show, 3's Company)
1947 - Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam, rocker (Peace Train, Father & Son)
1952 - Robin Williams Chicago Ill, comedian (Mork & Mindy, Awakenings)
On TV in 1968
Here's Lucy The Red Skelton Hour The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour Mission: Impossible Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Doris Day Show The Mod Squad Mayberry R.F.D. The Carol Burnett Show Julia
Hot New Toys in 1968
Battling Tops The Outer Space Men Colorforms Pop Yer Top
Hoppity Hop Zeroids Zillion Bubble Blower
Billy Blastoff Star Trek Astro-Walkie Talkies Big Sneeze
Top Books in 1968
The Double Helix by James D. Watson From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
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