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SENIOR CLAS
OFFICERS
Eugene Straney...President
Earl Meyers...Vice
President
Tina Brown...Secretary
Hank
Mattingly...Treasurer
NO MAN CAN RISE ABOVE THAT FOR
WHICH HE AIMS.
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Births in 1962
February
6 - Axl
Rose
February
7 - Garth
Brooks
February
11 - Sheryl
Crow
March
2 - Jon
Bon Jovi
March
30 - M.C.
Hammer
June 19
- Paula
Abdul
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U.S.
Statistics
President: John
F. Kennedy
Vice President: Lyndon
B. Johnson
Population: 186,537,737
Life expectancy: 70.1 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 20.2
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 18.6
Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 4.8
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World Series
NY Yankees d. San Francisco Giants (4-3)
NBA Championship
Boston d. LA Lakers (4-3)
Wimbledon
Women: Karen Susman d. V. Sukova (6-4 6-4)
Men: Rod Laver d. M. Mulligan (6-2 6-2 6-1)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Decidedly
NCAA Basketball Championship
Cincinnati d. Ohio St. (71-59)
NCAA Football Champions
USC (11-0-0)
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US GDP (1998 dollars): $585.2 billion
Federal spending: $106.82 billion
Federal debt: $302.9 billion
Consumer Price Index: 30.2
Unemployment: 6.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.04
World
Statistics
Population: 3.136 billion
population
by decade
Nobel
Peace Prize:
Linus Pauling (US)
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Entertainment
Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Edge of Sadness, Edwin O'Connor
Music: The Crucible, Robert Ward
Drama: How to Succeed in Business Without Really
Trying, Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
Oscars
awarded in 1962
Academy Award, Best Picture: West Side Story,
Robert Wise, producer (United Artists)
Nobel Prize for Literature: John Steinbeck (US)
1962
Emmy Awards
1962
Tony Awards
Grammys
awarded in 1962
Record of the Year: "Moon River," Henry
Mancini
Album of the Year: Judy at Carnegie Hall, Judy
Garland (Capitol)
Song of the Year: "Moon River," Henry
Mancini and Johnny Mercer, songwriters
Miss America: Maria Fletcher (NC)
Events
- Marilyn Monroe dies of a drug overdose at age 36.
- The first transatlantic television transmission occurs via the
Telstar
Satellite, making worldwide television and cable networks a
reality.
- Johnny Carson takes over hosting duties of The Tonight
Show.
Movies
- Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian
Candidate, Divorce-Italian Style
Books
- James Baldwin, Another Country
- Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, Ficciones
- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
- Robert Frost, In the Clearing
- Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
- Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo' Nest
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