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Truman (Pres.) |
USA:
Dwight Eisenhower (President) |
USA:
John Kennedy (Pres.) |
USA:
Lyndon Johnson (Pres.)
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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) |
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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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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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Stalin |
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Erich Honecker |
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Boleslaw Bierut |
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Wladyslaw Gomulka |
Polska:
Edward Gierek |
 Romania:
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |
Romania:
Nicolae Ceauescu |
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_Yoshida_ Shigeru |
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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Guo: _Mao_ Zedong |
| French Indochina |
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Vietnam: _Ho Chi Minh |
Vietnam:
Le Duan |
 South Vietnam: Ngô
Dinh Diêm |
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South Vietnam: Nguyên
Van Thiêu |
 Kingdom of Kampuchea |
 Khmer Republic: Lon Nol |
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Vietnam War (USA) |
Vietnamese Civil War |
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Philippines:
D. Macapagal |
Philippines:
Ferdinand Marcos |
Philippines: Ferdinand
Marcos |
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Jawaharlal Nehru |
Bharat:
Lal Bahadur Shastri |
Bharat:
Indira Gandhi |
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Liaquat Ali Khan |
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Pakistan:
new constitution |
Pakistan: Muhammad _Ayub
Khan |
Pakistan: Yahya Khan |
Pakistan:
Zulfikar Bhutto |
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Bangladesh:
Mujibur Rahman |
 Iraq: King _Faisal_ II |
 Iraq: Abdul Karim Qassem |
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Ba'ath Party |
 Misr: Farouk I |
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 Gamal Abd al-_Nasser |
 Misr: Anwar al-_Sadat |
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Yom Kippur War |
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David Ben-Gurion |
M. Sharett |
Israel:
David Ben-Gurion |
Israel:
Levi Eshkol |
Israel:
Golda Meir |
Israel: Yitzhak Rabin |
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Congo Crisis |
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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: Daniel François
Malan |
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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John Gorton |
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Gough Whitlam |
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| Diner's Club 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
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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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UPC Bar Codes |
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Geodesic Dome |
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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Nuclear submarine USS Thresher sinks |
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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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Norethindrone
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Dow Saran Wrap |
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The Ten
Commandments |
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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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De Havilland Comet
jet airliner |
The Robe |
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Artificial heart
valves |
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The Graduate |
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Australopithecus
afarensis, and her name is Lucy |
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Chlorpromazine
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Around the
World in 80 Days |
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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: Dragnet |
TV: Candid Camera |
TV: Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In |
Happy Days |
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TV: All in the Family |
| TV: The Ed Sullivan Show |
TV: The Waltons |
| TV: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts |
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| TV: Texaco Star Theater |
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TV: The Flip Wilson Show |
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TV: Marcus Welby, M. D. |
| TV: Fireside Theatre |
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TV: Wagon Train |
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