American Decades
People in the News
Frank Caplan of Creative Playthings, introduced to the American child "Little Brother," the first anatomically correct male baby doll, in 1966.
In 1968 Cosmopolitan magazine chose twenty-two-year-old Candace Bergen to be their political correspondent with the Robert Kennedy campaign.
In 1964 Chief John Big Tree, 103, one of the models for the 1916 Indian-head nickel, traveled to New York City to participate in Chase Manhattan Bank's one-hundredth anniversary celebration of the nickel.
On 13 June 1960 Jacqueline Cochran, 54, the first woman to fly at the speed of sound, became the first woman to travel at twice the speed of sound when she rode in the backseat of a Navy 3-J Vigilante jet.
In May 1968 Stanford University elected Vicky Drake, 21, who worked between semesters as a topless dancer, as its student-body president.
American evangelist Billy Graham...
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1960's Lifestyles and Social Trends
The 1960's
