75 days length of the Senate filibuster designed to hold up passage of the Civil Rights Bill in 1968.

72 percent elementary and high school teachers who approve of corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure (1960)

35 cents chicken salad sandwich at a Manhattan coffee shop

15 cents coffee, milk or orange juice

"The youth rebellion is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down and be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe."
-William Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch

"Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
-Neil Armstrong, on the moon, July, 1969