| 1959-60 Time Capsule |
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| Prices |
| Bread: . . . . . . . . . . .. $ .20 loaf Milk: . . . . . . . . . . .$1.01 gallon Eggs: . . . . . . . . . . $ .88 dozen Gas: . . . . . . . . . . ..$ .30 gallon Stamp: . . . . . . . . . .$.04 each Minimum Wage: . . ..$1.00 hour Car: . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .$2,250 House: . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,400 Average Income: . . $5,976/year DOW Average: . . . . . . . . . 679 |
| U S President |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| U S Vice President |
| Richard M. Nixon |
| Academy Award Winners |
| Best Picture: |
| Best Actor: |
| Best Actress: |
| Ben Hur Directed by William Wyler |
| Charlton Heston in Ben Hur |
| Simone Signoret in Room At The Top |
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| On TV |
| Leave It To Beaver The Twilight Zone I Love Lucy |
| Perry Mason Alfred Hitchcock Presents Gunsmoke |
| Bonanza The Ed Sullivan Show |
| Hot New Toys |
| Mr. Machine Aggravation Risk Atomic Cape Canaveral Playset Game of Life |
| Chatty Cathy Etch-A-Sketch Roller Derby Skateboard Troll Dolls |
| Fisher Price Little People Hi-Ho! Cherry-O Barbie Give-A-Show Projector |
| Top Books |
| James Joyce The Alexandria Quartet Onion John Lolita The Affluent Society Henderson The Rain King The Elements of Style The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| by Richard Ellmann by Lawrency Durrell by Joseph Krumgold by Vladimir Nabokov by John Kenneth Galbraith by Saul Bellow by William Strunk and E. B. White by Elizabeth George Speare |