Wednesday, October 08, 1969 [font=Arial,Helvetica]Top News Headlines This Week:[/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Oct 8 - L I Chernykh discovers asteroids #1855 Korolev, #1856 Ruzena, Oct 8 - #1956 Artek, #2030 Belyaev, #2031 BAM, #2468, #2561 Margolin, Oct 8 - #2877 Likhachev, #2948 Amosov, #3126 Davydov, #3441 & #3659 Oct 8 - #3804 Drunina, #3963 Paradzhanov, #4184 Berdyayev, #4681 Ermak, Oct 8 - #4915 Solzhenitsyn & #5154 Oct 9 - Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together" [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica]Top Songs for 1969[/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Everyday People by Sly & the Family Stone [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]In the Year 2525 by Zager & Evans [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Honky Tonk Women by Rolling Stones [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Wedding Bell Blues by Fifth Dimension [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In by Fifth Dimension [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]I Can't Get Next to You by Temptations [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Get Back by Beatles (with Billy Preston) [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Sugar, Sugar by Archies [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Dizzy by Tommy Roe [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Crimson & Clover by Tommy James & the Shondells [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica]1969 Prices[/font][font=Arial,Helvetica]US President[/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Bread:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1] $0.23/loaf[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Richard M. Nixon[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Milk:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1] $1.26/gal[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica]US Vice President[/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Eggs:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1] $1.14/doz[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Spiro T. Agnew [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Car:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1] $3,400[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica]Academy Award Winners[/font] [font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Gas:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1] $0.35/gal[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Best Picture:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Midnight Cowboy[/size][/font] [font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Directed By John Schlesinger[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Best Actor:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]John Wayne[/size][/font] [font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]in True Grit[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Best Actress:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Maggie Smith[/size][/font] [font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]House:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1] $27,900[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Stamp:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1] $0.06/ea[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Avg Income:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1] $10,577/yr[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Min Wage:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1] $1.60/hr[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]DOW Avg:[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1] 800[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica]People born on October 8[/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]1949 - Sigourney [Susan Alexandra] Weaver LA, actress (Alien, Working Girl)[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]1941 - Jesse Jackson (D) clergyman/presidential candidate[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]1943 - Chevy Chase NYC, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack)[/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica]On TV in 1969[/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Mission: Impossible [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Dragnet [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Hawaii Five-0 [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Adam-12 [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]The Carol Burnett Show [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Star Trek [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]The Brady Bunch [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Get Smart [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]The Avengers [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica]Hot New Toys in 1969[/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Barrel of Monkeys [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Silly String [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Zeroids [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Toss Across [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Nerf Ball [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Upsy Downsy Babies [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Easy-Bake Premier Oven [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Wizzer [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Weebles [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica]Top Books in 1969[/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Deliverance by James Dickey [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson [/size][/font][font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]The High King by Lloyd Alexander [/size][/font]