1960

• Enovid 10, the first oral contraceptive pill, is first sold at fifty-five cents a pill.
• The nation's population is nearing 180 million. The U.S. Census Bureau finds that Nevada, Florida, Alaska, Arizona, and California have the largest population growth of the United States.
• More than a third of women work outside the home, up from 25 percent in the 1940s.
• Some two thousand computers are at work in American businesses, performing tasks that were once human functions.
• Felt-tip pens, artificial tanning cream, and Astroturf are among the year's new products.
• On February 1, students from a nearby university stage a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The passive, nonviolent tactic to integrate public facilities quickly spreads to cities across the South.
• On April 9, Southern School News reports that six years after the Supreme...