1966 Time Machine

Enter Time Machine. Destination: 1966. You have arrived.

You find that:
1. LBJ is President of the United States.

2. U.S. Population: 195, 827,000

3. There are race riots in Chicago and L.A.

4. Richard Speck murdered eight nurses in Chicago this year.

5. U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 67, just married Miss Cathleen Curran Hefferan, 23.

6. Frank Sinatra marries Mia Farrow.

7. Miss Margerta Arvidsson, 18, of Gothenburg, Sweden is crowned Miss Universe this year.

8. Airline mechanics have been on strike for two weeks.

9. Marmaduke won't eat dog food. Nancy is steamed about her allowance.

10. "Georgian" 3 bedroom--$14,700.

11. Brand new Camaro--$2,466.

12. The astronauts are drinking Tang, but have not yet set foot on the Moon.

13. Twiggy is all the rage.

14. Nancy Sinatra's boots are walking.

15. TV: Batman, That Girl, Peyton Place, The FBI, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Lawrence Welk.

16. John John Kennedy is 5.

17. Bob Hope is hawking American Tourister.

18. Clothes are Mod.

19. Make-up is frosted.

20. Died: Lenny Bruce, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton, Sophie Tucker, Montgomery Clift, Walt Disney, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Lillian Smith, Billy Rose, Ed Wynn, Malvina Hoffman, Paul Manship, William Zorach, Elizabeth Arden, Russell Crouse

21. Born: Mike Tyson, Cindy Crawford, Janet Jackson, John Cusack, Justine Bateman, Sinead O'Connor, Alberto Tomba


(Thanks to my anonymous time machine contributor! I wrote 1945 and 1968 but this one was written by someone to whom I had given this idea and this person then sent me a copy later!)
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