highlights

MAJOR EVENTS:

Fidel Castro's forces were victorious in Cuban revolution.
Alaska and Hawaii became U.S. states.
U.S. and Canada completed the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Vice President Richard Nixon engaged Soviet leader Khrushchev in an informal
"kitchen debate" at a Moscow trade show where
U.S. kitchen appliances were on exhibit.

BUSINESS & ECONOMY:

Congress passed legislation cracking down on union racketeering.
President Eisenhower intervened to halt protracted steel and
longshoremen's strikes.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

Soviet space probe Lunik III photographed the far side of the moon.

SPORTS:
World Series: Los Angeles over Chicago, 4-2
Jack Nicklaus won USGA Amateur Golf Championship.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT:

Movies:
Suddenly Last Summer
Ben Hur
Anatomy of a Murder
Hiroshima
Mon Amour

Songs:
Mack the Knife
High Hopes
Personality
Kansas City
Battle of New Orleans

TV Shows:
Maverick
Rawhide
Fibber McGee and Molly
Peter Gunn
The Real McCoys
Dennis the Menace

Books:
Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth
Goldfinger, Ian Fleming
The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
The Status Seekers, Vance Packard
The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
Advise and Consent, Allen Drury

Scandal:
The popular TV quiz show "$64,000 Question".
A contestant admitted his winning performances were rigged.

Musicals:
Gypsy
The Sound of Music

U.S. Post Office banned D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
from the mails on obscenity grounds.

Film director Cecil B. De Mille died.

EVERYDAY LIFE:
Studies determined that more Americans have died in auto accidents
than in all U.S. wars combined.
Playboy magazine debuted featuring Marilyn Monroe as its first Centerfold.
Toy manufacturer Wham-O introduced the "Frisbee".

FUN FACTS:
New York City consider lobbying for statehood !

Most Importantly:
We became the best durned graduating class ever,
and set out on the adventures of our lives !