Statistics & What was "News"....
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President:
Lyndon B.
Johnson
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Vice President:
Hubert H.
Humphrey
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Population: 198,712,056
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Life expectancy: 70.5 years
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Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 29.9
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Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 27.4
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Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 6.8
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- The first heart transplant
was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South
Africa.
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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> |
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More FACTS
about this decade.
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Unemployment
3,852,000
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National Debt 286.3 Billion
- Average
Salary $4,743
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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>
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- 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.
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