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A Look Back:1968

Friday, October 25, 1968
Top News Headlines This Week:
Oct 20 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis  
Oct 22 - Apollo 7 returns to Earth 
Oct 24 - Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on œ50 bail  
Oct 25 - Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby  
Oct 26 - 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy  
Oct 29 - NHS Mock Election  
Oct 25 - "Tiger" costume starts new tradition!  
Oct 25 - "Frosh" elect new leaders, Ricky Smith new class President  
Top Songs for 1968
The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding     I Heard It Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye    
People Got to Be Free by Rascals     Hey Jude by Beatles    
Love Child by Diana Ross & the Supremes     Love Is Blue by Paul Mauriat    
Honey by Bobby Goldsboro     This Guy's In Love with You by Herb Alpert    
Tighten Up by Archie Bell & the Drells     Mrs. Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel    
1968 Prices US President
Bread:  $0.22/loaf Lyndon B. Johnson
Milk:  $1.21/gal US Vice President
Eggs:  $1.12/doz Hubert H. Humphrey
Car:  $2,450 Academy Award Winners
Gas:  $0.34/gal
Best Picture: Oliver!
  Produced By John Wolf
Best Actor: Cliff Robertson
  in Charly
Best Actress: Katherine Hepburn/barb Streisand
  in Lion In Winter/funny Girl
House:  $26,600
Stamp:  $0.06/ea
Avg Income:  $9,670/yr
Min Wage:  $1.60/hr
DOW Avg:    944
People born on October 25
Anyone born on October 25, 1968 are now 33 years old!
On TV in 1968
The Carol Burnett Show    Bewitched    Mission: Impossible   
Star Trek    The Andy Griffith Show   
Hot New Toys in 1968
The Outer Space Men Colorforms    Big Sneeze    Zeroids   
Spirograph    Battling Tops   
Top Books in 1968
The Double Helix by James D. Watson    

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