MEMORIES
President: John F. Kennedy
Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson

Population: 186,537,737
Life expectancy: 70.1 years

Dow-Jones
High: 767
Low: 723

Federal spending: $106.82 billion
Federal debt: $302.9 billion
Inflation: 0.4%
Consumer Price Index: 30.2
Unemployment: 6.7%

Cost of a new home: $18,200.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.04
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.31
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.54
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $0.49

In the News in 1962:

President Kennedy Orders Blockade of Cuba to Prevent Soviet Missile Deployment
JFK Orders Total Ban On Cuban Products
John Glenn First American to Orbit Earth, 3 Revolutions
Federal Troops Go To U. of Mississippi To Register First Black, James Meredith
Marilyn Monroe Dies of Over Dose
U-2 Pilot Gary Powers Traded For Spymaster Rudolf Abel
Adolf Eichman Hanged in Jerusalem
Author William Faulkner dies.
Mariner II is first interplanetary probe, goes around Venus
My Fair Lady, Longest running musical closes after 2,717 performances
Diet Right, Polaroid color film, and “Tab” are new products
Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points In one game
Douglas Edwards, CBS evening news, is replaced by Walter Cronkite
The “Breakfast At Tiffany’s ” look is in fashion

The Billboard Top 10 Singles of the Year:

1. Green Onions – Booker T & The MG’s
2. Duke Of Earl – Gene Chandler
3. Soldier Boy – The Shirelles
4. Sheila – Tommy Roe

5. Peppermint Twist – Joey Dee & The Starliters
6. Loco-Motion, The – Little Eva
7. Wanderer, The – Dion
8. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do – Neil Sedaka
9. Johnny Angel – Shelley Fabares
10. Palisades Park – Freddy Cannon

Top Albums of 1962:

Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Henry Mancini
Holiday Sing Along with Mitch – Mitch Miller
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Musice – Ray Charles
Peter Paul and Mary – Peter, Paul and Mary
West Side Story – Sound Track

Top Box Office Movies of 1962:

Dr. No $16,067,035
How the West Was Won $12,150,000
Taras Bulba $4,000,000
State Fair $3,500,000
Girls! Girls! Girls! $2,600,000

Other films of that year:

Advise and Consent
Birdman of Alcatraz
Days of Wine and Roses
Lawrence of Arabia
Lolita
Long Day’s journey into Night
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Chapman Report
The Counterfeit Traitor
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Longest Day
The Manchurian Candidate
The Miracle Worker
To Kill a MockingBird
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Top 20 TV shows:

1 ) The Beverly Hillbillies
2 ) Candid Camera
3 ) The Red Skelton Show
4 ) Bonanza
5 ) The Lucy Show
6 ) The Andy Griffith Show
7 ) Ben Casey
8 ) The Danny Thomas Show
9 ) The Dick Van Dyke Show
10 ) Gunsmoke
11 ) Dr. Kildare
12 ) The Jack Benny Program
13 ) What’s My Line
14 ) The Ed Sullivan Show
15 ) Hazel
16 ) I’ve Got a Secret
17 ) The Jackie Gleason Show
18 ) The Defenders
19 ) The Garry Moore Show
20 ) To tell the Truth