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Links--1949 to 1989

 

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1949
Harry Truman , Doris Day , Red China , Johnnie Ray ,

South Pacific , Walter Winchell , Joe Dimaggio ,

1950
Joe McCarthy , Richard Nixon , Studebaker , Television ,

North Korea , South Korea , Marilyn Monroe ,

1951
Rosenbergs , H-Bomb , Sugar Ray , Panmunjom ,

Brando , The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye ,

1952
Eisenhower , Vaccine , England's got a new Queen ,

Marciano , Liberace , Santayanna good-bye .

1953
Joseph Stalin , Malenkov , Nasser and Prokofiev

Rockefeller , Campanella , Communist bloc

1954
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron , Toscanini, Dacron ,

Dien Bien Phu falls , Rock Around the Clock

1955
Einstein , James Dean , Brooklyn's got a winning team ,

Davy Crockett , Peter Pan , Elvis Presley , Disneyland

1956
Bardot , Budapest , Alabama , Krushchev ,

Princess Grace , Peyton Place , Trouble in the Suez

1957
Little Rock , Pasternak , Mickey Mantle , Kerouac ,

Sputnik , Chou En-Lai , Bridge on the River Kwai

1958
Lebanon , Charles de Gaulle , California baseball ,

Starkweather homicide , children of thalidomide

1959
Buddy Holly , Ben Hur , space monkey , mafia ,

Hula Hoops ,   Castro , Edsel is a no go

1960
U-2 , Syngman Rhee , Payola , and Kennedy ,

Chubby Checker , Psycho , Belgians in the Congo

1961
Hemingway , Eichmann , Stranger in a Strange Land ,

Dylan , Berlin , Bay of Pigs Invasion

1962
Lawrence of Arabia , British Beatlemania ,

Ole Miss , John Glenn , Liston beats Patterson

1963
Pope Paul , Malcolm X , British politician sex ,

JFK blown away , What else do I have to say?

1964 to 1989
Birth control , Ho Chi Minh , Richard Nixon back again ,

Moonshot , Woodstock , Watergate , punk rock ,

Begin , Reagan , Palestine , terror on the airlines ,

Ayatollahs in Iran , Russians in Afghanistan ,

Wheel of Fortune , Sally Ride , heavy metal , suicide ,

Foreign debts , homeless vets , AIDS , crack , Bernie Goetz ,

Hyperdermics on the shore , China's under martial law ,

Rock and roller cola wars , I can't take it anymore!

 


   
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