1960s Timeline

Feb. 20, 1962 - The parents of Lieut. Col. John Glenn Jr. (pictured in 1945), radiant and relieved that their long wait was over, said today that their prayers had been answered. A crowd of about 1,200 persons roared their applause as the beaming couple came into the Muskingum College gymnasium in New Concord, Ohio this afternoon to give their thoughts while their son was in orbit. “It’s a hard question to answer,” said the astronaut’s mother when asked to describe her feelin

Oct. 13, 1961 - Rosalind Elias, the Metropolitan Opera Company’s young mezzo-soprano who published an ad in The New York Times last Wednesday expressing her faith in the United States, has been overwhelmed by the public response. “It’s wonderful,” she said today, as she glanced through letters that had been sent to her. “I’ve received more ‘bravos’ from this than I ever have from an audience at the Met,” she said. In essence, Miss Elias’s message in the ad was that she did no

Sept. 10, 1961 - Reverend Billy Graham said today that the U.S. had more unhappy marriages now than ever. Only social pressures and children prevent "many more loveless marriages" from breaking up, the evangelist told 22,000 persons at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium. "Our divorce rate is three times more than England's and Australia's and six times that of Norway and Holland," he said. "When the home breaks, the nation is on the skids. We are threatened by communism from