Tuesday, February 02, 1965
Top News Headlines This Week:
Feb 2 - Joe Ortons "Loot" premieres in Brighton   Feb 3 - earlier, the proposal is turned down   Feb 3 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)   Feb 3 - 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams   Feb 3 - Geraldine McCullough win Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture   Feb 4 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site  
Top Songs for 1965
Help! by Beatles     Yesterday by Beatles    
I Got You Babe by Sonny & Cher     You've Lost The Lovin' Feelin' by Righteous Brothers    
Turn! Turn! Turn! by Byrds     Satisfaction by Rolling Stones    
Downtown by Petula Clark     Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter by Herman's Hermits    
I Can't Help Myself by Four Tops     This Diamond Ring by Gary Lewis & the Playboys    
1965 Prices US President
Bread:  $0.21/loaf Lyndon B. Johnson
Milk:  $1.05/gal US Vice President
Eggs:  $1.00/doz Hubert H. Humphrey
Car:  $2,350 Academy Award Winners
Gas:  $0.31/gal
Best Picture: The Sound Of Music
  Directed By Robert Wise
Best Actor: Lee Marvin
  in Cat Ballou
Best Actress: Julie Christie
  in Darling
House:  $21,500
Stamp:  $0.05/ea
Avg Income:  $7,704/yr
Min Wage:  $1.25/hr
DOW Avg:    969
People born on February 2
1946 - Farrah Fawcett, Texas, actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed)
1923 - Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith Ft Worth TX, gossip columnist (New York Daily News, NBC-TV)
1927 - Stan Getz Philadelphia PA, jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey)
1942 - Graham Nash rocker (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-Southern Cross, Hollies)
On TV in 1965
Hogan's Heroes    Green Acres    Daniel Boone   
Batman    Wild, Wild West    Daktari   
Get Smart    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.    Peyton Place   
I Dream of Jeannie   
Hot New Toys in 1965
Secret Sam Exploding Binoculars    Shooting Cane    Weird Clyde   
Screaming Mee-Mee Gun    G.I. Joe    Operation   
Man From U.N.C.L.E. Headquarters Transmitter    Battleship    Green Ghost Game   
Top Books in 1965
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska     The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X    
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote    
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