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