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USA: Dwight Eisenhower (President) |
USA: John Kennedy (Pres.) |
USA: Lyndon Johnson (Pres.) |
USA: Richard Nixon (Pres.) |
Gerald Ford |
Frederick Vinson (Chief Justice) |
Earl Warren (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) |
Warren Berger (Chief Justice) |
Sam Rayburn (House Speaker) |
Joseph Martin (House Speaker) |
Sam Rayburn (Speaker of the House) |
John McCormack (House Speaker) |
Carl Albert (House Speaker) |
Scott Lucas |
Ernest McFarland (Senate Maj.) |
Robert Taft |
William Knowland |
Lyndon Johnson (Senate Majority Leader) |
Mike Mansfield (Senate Maj.) |
Canada: Louis _St. Laurent |
Canada: John Diefenbaker |
Canada: Lester Pearson |
Canada: Pierre Trudeau |
Miguel Alemán Váldez |
Adolfo Ruíz Cortines |
Adolfo López Mateos |
Mexico: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz |
Mexico: Luis _Echeverría_ Álvarez |
UN: Trygvi Lie |
UN: Dag Hammarskjöld |
UN: U Thant |
UN: Kurt Waldheim |
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Clement Atlee |
UK: Winston Churchill |
UK: Anthony Eden |
UK: Harold Macmillan |
Alec Douglas-Home |
UK: Harold Wilson |
UK: James Callaghan |
Harold Wilson |
UK:
_George VI |
UK:
Queen _Elizabeth II |
France: Fourth Republic |
France (5th Republic): Charles _de Gaulle |
France: Georges Pompidou |
_Giscard d'Estaing |
Deutschland: Konrad Adenauer |
Deutschland: Ludwig Erhard |
Deutschland: Kurt Kiesinger |
Deutschland: Willy Brandt |
Helmut Schmidt |
Pope _Pious XII |
Pope _John XXIII |
Pope Paul VI |
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Polska: Edward Gierek |
Romania: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |
Romania: Nicolae Ceauescu |
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Nihon: _Hatoyama_ Ichirô |
_Ishibasi_ Tanzan |
Nihon: _Kishi_ Nobusuke |
_Ikeda_ Hayato |
Nihon: _Satô_ Eisaku |
Nihon: _Tanaka_ Kakuei |
South Korea (1st Republic): Syngman Rhee |
2nd Republic |
South Korea (Mil. Junta): Park Chung Hee |
South Korea (3rd Republic): Park Chung Hee |
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Vietnam: Le Duan |
South Vietnam: Ngô Dinh Diêm |
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Kingdom of Kampuchea |
Khmer Republic: Lon Nol |
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Philippines: Ferdinand Marcos |
Philippines: Ferdinand Marcos |
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Bharat: Lal Bahadur Shastri |
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Pakistan: Muhammad _Ayub Khan |
Pakistan: Yahya Khan |
Pakistan: Zulfikar Bhutto |
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Iraq: King _Faisal_ II |
Iraq: Abdul Karim Qassem |
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Ba'ath Party |
Misr: Farouk I |
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Gamal
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Misr: Anwar al-_Sadat |
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M. Sharett |
Israel: David Ben-Gurion |
Israel: Levi Eshkol |
Israel: Golda Meir |
Israel:
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Leopoldville Congo: Joseph Kasavubu |
Congo Kinshasa: Joseph-Desiré Mobutu |
(Zaire): (_Mobutu_ Sese Seko) |
Tanganyika |
Tanganyika: Julius Nyerere |
(Tanzania: Julius Nyerere) |
Kenya |
Kenya: Jomo Kenyatta |
Gold
Coast |
Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah |
Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah |
Ghana (Junta): Joseph Ankrah |
Ghana: Kofi Busia |
Ghana: 2nd Junta |
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South Africa: Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom |
South Africa: Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd |
South Africa: Balthazar Johannes Vorster |
Argentina: Juan Peron |
Argentina: Military Rule |
Argentina: Civilian Rule |
Argentina: Military Rule |
Argentina: Civilian Rule |
Fulgencio _Batista_ y Zaldivar |
Cuba: Fidel _Castro_ Ruz |
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Chile: Eduardo Frei |
Chile: Salvador _Allende_ Gossens |
Chile: Augusto _Pinochet_ Ugarte |
Australia: Robert Menzies |
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credit card |
Hydrogen Bomb |
Sony transistor radio |
DuPont
Polyester |
Swanson frozen TV
dinners |
Salk polio
vaccine |
Liquid Paper
correction fluid |
Sputnik
artificial satellite |
Texas Instruments
integrated circuit microchip |
DuPont Spandex |
Laser |
Valium |
Satellite transmission of television
signal |
F-4 Phantom
Fighter |
Deinonychus
discovered, suggesting agile dinosaurs |
NutraSweet |
NBC 100% color broadcasting |
Electronic quartz
wristwatch |
Sea floor
spreading confirms continental drift |
First man on the
Moon: Neil Armstrong in Apollo 11 |
Texas Instruments
pocket calculator |
E-mail |
Atari video game
Pong |
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No-Cal sugar-free
ginger ale |
Double helix
structure of DNA discovered |
The Breathalyzer |
McDonald's
fast-food restaurant franchise |
Crest flouride
toothpaste |
Velcro |
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Enovid birth
control pills |
First man in
space: Yuri Gagarin |
Polaroid instant color photography |
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M16 assault rifle |
Sony Betamax home video recorder |
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Human heart
transplant |
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Arpanet computer
network |
Apollo 13 limps home |
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F-15 Eagle
fighter |
The Exorcist |
Computed axial
tomography (CAT) scanner |
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Pream powdered
coffee creamer |
Heart-lung
machine used in surgery |
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B-52
Stratofortress bomber |
Ampex Corp. videotape Recorder |
Eli Lilly pain killer Darvon |
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Ben-Hur |
Tylenol
acetaminophen analgesic |
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Quarks: proposed
fundamental particles |
The Sound of
Music |
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Coronary artery
bypass |
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Ibuprofen
pain-killer (Midol) |
Love Story |
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The Sting |
Heimlich maneuver |
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Dow Saran Wrap |
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The Ten
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Sleeping
Beauty |
Head & Shoulders
dandruff shampoo |
101 Dalmatians |
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Cleopatra |
Mary Poppins |
Doctor Zhivago |
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The Jungle
Book |
¯"Mrs.
Robinson" |
Butch Cassidy
& the Sundance Kid |
Airport |
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The Godfather |
American
Graffiti |
Recombinant DNA
procedure |
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Comet jet airliner |
The Robe |
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Around the
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¯"Georgia
on My Mind" |
¯"Stand
By Me" |
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¯"Rhythm
of the Rain" |
¯"Baby,
I Need Your Loving" |
¯"You've
Lost That Lovin Feelin" |
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¯"Never
My Love" |
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Dolly!" |
¯"Yesterday" |
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TV: Candid Camera |
TV: Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In |
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| TV: The Ed Sullivan Show |
TV: The Waltons |
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TV: The Flip Wilson Show |
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| TV: Fireside Theatre |
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