News & Economy
President: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vice President: Richard M. Nixon
Population: 177,829,628
Life expectancy: 69.9 years
Cost of a new home: $30,000.00
Cost of a new car: $2,250.00
Median Household Income: $5,016.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.04
Cost of a gallon of gas: $0.25
 Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.89
Cost of a gallon of milk: $1.01
News Headlines
Fidel Castro's forces victorious in Cuban revolution
Alaska and Hawaii become U.S. states
U.S. and Canada complete St. Lawrence Seaway
Vice President Richard Nixon engages Soviet leader Khrushchev in an informal "kitchen debate" at a Moscow trade show where U.S. kitchen appliances are on exhibit
Congress passes legislation cracking down on union racketeering
President Eisenhower intervenes to halt protracted steel and longshoremen's strikes
Soviet space probe Lunik III photographs far side of the moon
Scandal strikes the popular TV quiz show $64,000 Question when a contestant admits his winning performances were rigged
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Music
Billboard Top 20
1. Mack The Knife, Bobby Darin
2. The Battle Of New Orleans, Johnny Horton
3. Personality, Lloyd Price
4. Venus, Frankie Avalon
5. Lonely Boy, Paul Anka
6. Mr. Blue, Fleetwoods
7. The Three Bells, Browns
8. Come Softly To Me, Fleetwoods
9. Kansas City, Wilbert Harrison
10. Dream Lover, Bobby Darin
11. Sleep Walk, Santo & Johnny
12. Put Your Head On My Shoulder, Paul Anka
13. Stagger Lee, Lloyd Price
14. Donna, Ritchie Valens
15. ('Til) I Kissed You, Everly Brothers
16. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Platters
17. Charuk Brown, Coasters
18. Quiet Village, Martin Denny
19. My Heart Is An Open Book, Carl Dobkins Jr.
20. Pink Shoelaces, Dodie Stevens
Grammy Awards
 Album of the Year:
Come Dance With Me, Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
Record of the Year:
“Mack the Knife,” Bobby Darin
Best Artist: Bobby Darin
Best Female Vocal:
“But Not for Me,” Ella Fitzgerald
Best Male Vocal:
Come Dance With Me, Frank Sinatra
Song of the Year:
“The Battle of New Orleans,” Jimmy Driftwood, songwriter
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Movies
Top 5 Movie Money Makers
 1. Ben-Hur
2. Some Like It Hot
3. Hitchcock's North by Northwest
4. Rio Bravo
5. The Killer Shrews
Academy Awards
Best Actor: Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur
Best Actress: Simone Signoret, Room At The Top
Best Director: William Wyler, Ben-Hur
Best Picture: Ben-Hur
Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith, Ben-Hur
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters, The Diary Of Anne Frank
Television
Americas Top 10 TV Favorites
1. Gunsmoke (CBS)
2. Wagon Train (NBC)
3. Have Gun Will Travel (CBS)
4. The Danny Thomas Show (CBS)
5. The Red Skelton show (CBS)
6. Father Knows Best (CBS)
7. 77 Sunset Strip (ABC)
8. Wanted: Dead or Alive (CBS)
9. Perry Mason (CBS)
10. The Real McCoys (ABC)
Emmy Awards
Drama...
Best Drama - Playhouse 90 (CBS)
Best Actor - Robert Stack, The Untouchables
Best Actress - Jane Wyatt, Father Knows Best
Best Comedy Art Carney Special (NBC)
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Time Capsule: 1959
