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Statistics & What was "News"....

 

U.S. Statistics
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • President: Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey
  • Population: 198,712,056
  • Life expectancy: 70.5 years
  • Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 29.9
  • Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 27.4
  • Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 6.8
  • The first heart transplant was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa. 

 

<Remember When...>
  • The first hand-held calculator was invented in 1967 by Texas Instruments, at a cost of $2,500 a piece.

<http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1960.htm>

 
 

More FACTS about this decade. 

  • Unemployment 3,852,000
  • National Debt 286.3 Billion
  • Average Salary $4,743
  • Teacher's Salary $5,174
  • Minimum Wage $1.00
  • Life Expectancy:  Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years
  • Auto deaths 21.3 per 100,000
  • An estimated 850,000 "war baby" freshmen enter college; emergency living quarters are set up in dorm lounges, hotels and trailer camps.
     
    <http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html>
 
  • The birth control pill became widely available and abortion for cause was legalized in Colorado in 1967.  In 1967, both abortion and artificial insemination became legal in some states.

<http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html#book>

   

 

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