December 29, 1962
By the winter of 1962, Kennedy was in the White House and the federal minimum wage stood at $1.15/hr — the administration was pushing a $5.7 billion space budget for 1964, with three-quarters of it directed toward the goal of landing men on the Moon. On television, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" had taken the Emmy for best comedy, while Chubby Checker's "The Twist" sat at the top of the music charts, with Americans across the country picking up the dance in living rooms and on television variety programs. The Green Bay Packers held the NFL championship that winter, and on February 4th, astronomers marked a rare grand conjunction of all five naked-eye planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn — aligned within 16 degrees of one another on the ecliptic, an event that would not repeat in comparable form for generations.
On the cover
Magazine Covers — December 29, 1962
NY Times Headlines — Week of December 29, 1962
Kennedy Finds Prospects For Peace Better In 1963; Sees The Communists' Appeal Dimmed In Neutral Eyes By Cuban Setback But Warns Of New Pressures Breathing Spell Seen By Kennedy Disaster War Prevented Several Problems Remain
Tshombe Calls For A Cease-Fire And Unity Talks; Says In Messages He Would Return To Elisabethville If Guaranteed Safety U.N. Troops Advance Indians Move 60 Miles Down Jadotville Road Toward Key Katanga Bridge Indian Troops Advance British Position Cited Tshombe Calls For Cease-Fire; Asks Guarantee Of Safe Return Messages From Jadotville Propoosals No Surprise Time Limit Set
Britain Assures Polaris Critics She Will Retain Nuclear Control; Britain Asserts Polaris Control Gap Will Be Filled
Bombing By Cairo Deplored By U.S.; Note Expresses Concern At Attacks On A Saudi Oasis Aiding Yemen Royalists Cairo Assurances Cited U.A.R. To Remove Troops Bombing By Cairo Deplored By U.S.
World Events — December 1962
Time Person of the Year — 1962
On the radio
Billboard Charts — December 29, 1962
Grammy Awards
On the bookshelf
On the television
Nielsen Top 10 — 1962–63 Season
Emmy Winners — 1962
At the movies
Box Office & Oscar Winners — December 29, 1962
Ebert 4-Star Films — December 29, 1962
On the field
Sports Champions — December 29, 1962
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