Top Tens for 1969
Whole lotta love
Led zeppelin
Proud Mary
Credence Clearwater Revival
I Want You Back
Jackson 5
Honky Tonk Women
Rolling stones
Bad Moon Rising
Credence Clearwater Revival
Suit: Judy Blue Eyes
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Dazed And Confused
Led Zeppelin
Gimme Shelter
Rolling Stones
Come Together
Beatles
I Can`t Get Next To You
Temptations
Bad Moon Rising:
Meaning
Credence Clearwater Revival
What I think the song means is
that there’s something coming
up in the next couple of year,
and it is warning to watch out
for anything that is coming up in
the next years. It’s also talking
about the end of the year world.
(CCR)
I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'.
I see bad times today.
[Chorus:]
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.
I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.
[Chorus]
All right!
Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.
The GodFather
The story begins as "Don" Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia "family",
oversees his daughter's wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from
the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Through Michael's
life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just
like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to
ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito
lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don't want
to follow the old ways and look out for community and "family". An up and coming rival
of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's
influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don's fading old world values and the new
ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.
Mario puzo
Mario Puzo was born October 15, 1920, in "Hell's Kitchen" on Manhattan's (NY) West
Side and, following military service in World War II, attended New York's New School for
Social Research and Columbia University. His best-known novel, "The Godfather," was
preceded by two critically acclaimed novels, "The Dark Arena" and "The Fortunate
Pilgrim." In 1978, he published "Fools Die," followed by "The Sicilian" (1984) and "The
Fourth K" (1991). Mario Puzo has also written several screenplays, including
Earthquake (1974), Superman (1978), and all three "Godfather" movies, for which he
received two Academy Awards. Mario's latest novel, 1996's "The Last Don," was made
into a CBS television miniseries in May 1997, starring Danny Aiello, Kirstie Alley and
Joe Mantegna. In 1997, Part II was aired. Also in 1997, Mario's "The Fortunate Pilgrim"
was re-released by Random House. Mario passed away July 2, 1999, at his home in
Bay Shore, Long Island. His last novel, "Omerta," will be published July, 2000. He is
survived by his companion of 20 years, Carol Gino, and five children.
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States,
in office from 1969 to 1974. He served as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961,
the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. A member of the
Republican Party, he was the only President to resign the office.
Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. After completing his undergraduate work at Whittier College,
he graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937 and returned to California to practice law in
La Habra. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the United States Navy, serving in the Pacific
theater, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander during World War II. He was elected to the House
of Representatives in 1946 representing California's 12th congressional district. In 1950 he was elected to
the United States Senate as the Junior Senator from California. He was the running mate of Dwight D.
Eisenhower, the Republican Party nominee, in the 1952 Presidential election, becoming one of the
youngest Vice Presidents in history. He waged an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960, narrowly
losing to John F. Kennedy, and an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of California in 1962; following
these losses, Nixon announced his withdrawal from political life. In 1968, however, he ran again for
President of the United States and was elected.
The most immediate task facing President Nixon was a resolution of the Vietnam War. He initially
escalated the conflict, overseeing incursions into neighboring countries, though American military
personnel were gradually withdrawn and he successfully negotiated a ceasefire with North Vietnam in
1973, effectively ending American involvement in the war. His foreign policy initiatives were largely
successful: his groundbreaking visit to the People's Republic of China in 1972 opened diplomatic
relations between the two nations, and he initiated détente and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the
Soviet Union. On the domestic front, he implemented the concept of New Federalism, transferring power
from the federal government to the states; new economic policies which called for wage and price control
and the abolition of the gold standard; sweeping environmental reforms, including the Clean Air Act and
creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency; the launch of the War on Cancer and War
on Drugs; reforms empowering women, including Title IX; and the desegregation of schools in the deep
South. He was reelected by a landslide in 1972. He continued many reforms in his second term, though
the nation was afflicted with an energy crisis. In the face of likely impeachment for his role in the
Watergate scandal,[1] Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. He was later controversially pardoned by his
successor, Gerald Ford, for any federal crimes he may have committed while in office.
In his retirement, Nixon became a prolific author and undertook many foreign trips. His work as an elder
statesman helped to rehabilitate his public image. He suffered a debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994, and
died four days later at the age of 81
Hawaii five-0
One of the popular shows on
television in 1969 was Hawaii five-0.
This show centers around a crime
drama in Honolulu, Hawaii. The main
character in this TV show Steve
McGarrett (played by Jack Lord) .
The plot of this show was to entertain
viewers in a thrilling action packed
cop show. My opinion on this show
is that it is a very entertaining and
interesting television show.
Rudy Galindo
1969American figure skater
Rudy Galindo's story is in many ways the classic American rags-to-riches tale of overcoming adversity to triumph in the end. Again
and again, Galindo has over-come personal tragedies and professional setbacks that would have defeated many other athletes.
When the departure of Kristi Yamaguchi from their hugely successful skating partnership left him high-and-dry, he struggled with
limited success to make up for lost time in men's singles competitions. Just when almost everyone had counted him out, he returned
to win the 1996 U.S. Figure Skating National Championship, right in his own hometown.
But in addition to his grit and perseverance, there is an integrity at the heart of Galindo's story, a rare
courage that allowed him to come out of the closet as one of the very few openly gay athletes. That same courage came through
when he announced that he had been diagnosed HIV-positive in 2000, and it has continued to shine through in this greatest battle of
his life.
A Trailer Park Childhood
Rudy Galindo was born in 1969 to Mexican-American parents Jess and Margaret Galindo in San Jose, California. Jess was a longdistance trucker who was often away from home. Margaret suffered from manic-depression (undiagnosed until 1983) that led to
hospitalizations. Even when she lived at home, she was often not able to take care of the children. Galindo had an older brother,
George, but much of the parenting responsibilities fell to his older sister Laura. She became a sort of mother to him and has
remained in many ways his best friend throughout his life. It was also Laura who introduced him to the sport that would make him a
star.
At the age of ten, Laura attended a skating party and immediately fell in love with it. She began to take skating lessons at the nearby
Eastridge Ice Arena, and six-year-old Rudy often tagged along. For Jess, the skating lessons were a great way to keep the kids out
of trouble. The family lived in a trailer park in East San Jose. As Galindo put it in Icebreaker: The Autobiography of Rudy Galindo, "I
thought our trailer was just fine. There wasn't any reason for me to think otherwise. The whole neighborhood was a trailer park, so
that's how all my neighbors lived." But the fact remained that it was also a dangerous place, a haven for gangs and drug dealers,
and Jess Galindo was glad that his children had found a safe place to play. It would of course prove to be much more than that for
Rudy.
A Prodigy and a Partnership
Galindo began to devote virtually all his free time to skating. He and Laura would get up at 4:45 in the morning to practice skating
before school. Even with that, Galindo was often late, and he actually had to change schools to find a principal willing to
accommodate this chronic lateness. The money for lessons also began to put a crimp in the family budget, and when it became too
expensive Laura dropped out of serious skating, taking a job at Taco Bell to help pay for Rudy's skating and ballet lessons. The
financial struggle prevented the Galindos from moving out of their trailer, but according to Rudy, his father never asked him to stop
skating.
The family's sacrifices and Galindo's hard work soon started to pay off. He quickly rose to prominence in the sport, taking third place
in the World Junior Figure Skating Championships at age 15, and first place two years later, in 1987. But it was in pairs skating that
Galindo really caught the attention of the skating world.
In 1983, Galindo met Kristi Yamaguchi, and the two began skating together. While both continued to skate separately, often winning
competitions, they began to be seen more and more as a team, a special combination that transcended their separate talents. In
1989 and again in 1990 they won the U.S. Figure Skating national pairs competition, and sportswriters began to speak of them as
likely medal winners in the 1992 Olympics. At the same time, Galindo grew closer to the Yamaguchi family, even moving in with
them for a few years and changing the spelling of his name to "Rudi" to better match Kristi.
But on April 26, 1990, Yamaguchi told Galindo she wanted to break up the partnership. She had continued to focus on singles
competitions, and her exhausting training schedule was taking its toll. Yamaguchi and Galindo took fifth place at the 1990 World
Figure Skating Pairs Championships, and to the surprise of many in the skating world, Yamaguchi failed to secure a medal in the
Women's Singles. Something had to give, and she decided to focus exclusively on the singles. While he understood her reasons,
Galindo was clearly hurt. As he told a Sports Illustrated reporter, "I guess I knew it would happen. You hear comments from other
skaters. But Kristi had never said anything. We were like brother and sister, then we just went our separate ways."
Difficult Times
Reluctantly, Galindo returned to the men's singles competitions. He won the Pacific Coast regionals, but the results at the Nationals
were disappointing. He placed 11th in 1991, climbed to 8th place in 1992, and then peaked at 5th place in 1993. In the 1994
Nationals, he placed 7th, and in 1995 was back at 8th place. At this point Galindo considered dropping out of competition altogether.
His personal life wasn't going any better. His mother continued to struggle with her depression, sometimes lashing out in
uncontrollable rages. His father suffered from diabetes and in 1988 he suffered a stroke. Indeed, illness and death seemed to haunt
Galindo in these years. The coach he shared with Yamaguchi, Jim Hulick, had died from AIDS in December of 1989. In 1993, his
father died of a heart attack. By that time, his brother George had been diagnosed with AIDS, and shortly afterwards he began to
visibly decline. Galindo took care of George in his last year, changing him, bathing him, and often waking up at night to sounds of
screaming as George slipped into AIDS dementia. George died in 1994, while Galindo was taking first place in the Vienna Cup. As
he told Sports Illustrated, "He died the same time I was doing my long program. I came right home. That was hard. I went from the
ice to the funeral." The next year, another coach, Rick Inglesias, died from the same terrible illness.
Galindo himself was not doing much better. Disappointed in his skating results, shell-shocked from all the suffering around him, he
began drinking heavily, experimenting with drugs, and (perhaps most dangerously) engaging in unsafe sex. While Galindo had
realized he was gay at a young age, and accepted it, it was not always easy for him. His father had reacted badly when his brother
George came out to the family, and Yamaguchi's mother simply refused to believe him when he confided to her that he was gay. Not
that Galindo lived a life of closeted isolation. He had close gay friends, who took him in when life in the family trailer became
overwhelming, and he had occasionally gone to gay bars with George, but in 1993 a recklessness seemed to take hold of Galindo.
He took up with a man, identified as "Kurt" in his autobiography, who got him onto drugs, cleaned out his bank account, and even
threatened him physically before dropping him. Galindo seemed to be spiraling out of control.
Turnaround and Triumph
Then in the fall of 1995, something seemed to happen inside Galindo. For one thing he began to help out his sister in teaching
young skaters. This rekindled his original love of the sport. When he found out that the 1996 Nationals would be held in San Jose,
his hometown, he decided to give it one last try—a farewell performance if need be, but one to be proud of. He began to train more
seriously, dropping 25 pounds and practicing his skating routines over and over to eliminate mistakes. At his sister's suggestion, he
even toned down his flamboyant costumes, which had often irritated judges in the past.
Galindo hoped just to finish in the top six, mentally conceding the top spots to previous national champions Todd Eldredge and
Scott Hamilton . Indeed, after the short program, Eldredge and Hamilton took top honors, with Galindo in third place. Then came
the long program, which counted for two-thirds of the final score, on January 20, 1996. Galindo went all out, landing eight triple
jumps and two triple jump combinations flawlessly. Even before he finished, the sellout crowd of 10,869 were on their feet, cheering
him on. When the judges announced the final results, including two perfect marks for artistic merit, the crowd went wild. And when
seven of the nine judges put Galindo in first place, guaranteeing him the championship, the chant of "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy" filled the
stadium.
The media guide for the event hadn't even included Galindo's name, but suddenly he was the national champion. He was the first
openly gay man, the first Hispanic, and at 26, the oldest man in 70 years to hold that title. It was an amazing comeback, and Galindo
became a hometown hero. And for the first time since the breakup with Yamaguchi, Galindo was on his way to the World
Championships, in Edmonton, Canada. Yamaguchi herself called to congratulate him, and for the first time in years the two had a
long, warm conversation. Despite a sprained ankle, a bad case of nerves, and the competition of Olympic medallists, Galindo took
the bronze medal at the World Championships. It was a result that left him and Laura, by now his coach, ecstatic.
Chronology
1969 Born September 7 in San Jose, California
1975 Begins skating
1983 Begins pairs skating with Kristi Yamaguchi
1985 Finishes third in World Junior Figure Skating Championships
1987 Finishes first in World Junior Figure Skating Championships
1989 Wins pairs title (with Yamaguchi) in U.S. Figure Skating Championships
1989 Former coach, Jim Hulick, dies of complications related to AIDS
1990 Wins pairs title (with Yamaguchi) in U.S. Figure Skating Championships; they take fifth at World Championships
1990 In April, Yamaguchi withdraws from pairs skating with Galindo to focus on women's singles
1991
Finishes a disappointing eleventh in U.S. Figure Skating Championships, men's singles; from 1992-1995, finishes fifth place or
lower in USFSA national championships
1993 Father dies of heart attack
1994 Brother, George, dies of complications related to AIDS
1995 Former coach, Rick Inglesi, dies of complications related to AIDS
1996 Wins USFSA national championship for men's singles
1996 Places third in USFSA world championship for men's singles
1996 Begins skating with Tom Collins Campbell's Soup of World Figure Skating Champions
2000 Diagnosed HIV-positive, goes public with the news
A New Life and a New Challenge
Already, Galindo had signed on with the Tom Collins Campbell's Soup Tour of World Figure Skating Champions, for $200,000—
more money than he'd ever seen. He also signed deals for his autobiography, a made-for-TV movie, and exhibitions, including the
Champions on Ice. For the first time in his life, money was not an issue. Wisely, he let Laura handle much of the finances. From a
young age family members and friends, even Mrs. Yamaguchi for a while, had handled Galindo's practical affairs while he focused
on skating. Now that he was making money, he was determined not to blow it all, although he did buy presents for friends and
family, including a new set of furniture for his mother—who declined his offer to buy her a house.
For the next few years, Galindo was able to concentrate on writing his autobiography, skating professionally, and enjoying his
newfound fame and fortune. Then in early 2000 came news that would once again challenge his faith in the future. Skating a warmup routine, he suddenly found himself so short of breath that he had to leave the ice. In his heart, he knew that something serious
was happening, but he put off going to the doctor. When his "bronchitis" failed to clear up, he finally sought medical treatment, and
found out that he was HIV-positive.
After the initial shock, as memories of George's final days came flooding into his mind, Galindo once again rose to meet the crisis.
He went public with the news of his diagnosis, and with his invaluable sister's encouragement, he began to treat the disease
aggressively, through anti-retroviral therapy. He seems to be doing well and continues to skate for the Tom Collins Champions on
Ice, while doing his best to raise public awareness of AIDS, particularly for those at greatest risk. One thing is certain: Galindo is not
giving up. As his agent, Michael Rosenberg, once described his entire career in USA Today, "Rudy Galindo is the [best example] of
never, ever, ever quit."
Switchblade, fast as lightning.
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Being a teenager in 1969
In this article will be taking now the point of view of one of the characters of The
Outsiders. The character will be taking from the outsiders is ponyboy Curtis. In 1969 is
life as a teenager will be very different from 1967. This is because in 1969 a lot of
things happen such as the U.S Going to the Moon on Apollo 11, the Vietnam War,
Woodstock, and the much different style of clothing. What might affect ponyboy most of
all these things that happened is probably the change in style. I say this because in
1969 the style of clothing was tie die shirts, long hair (wich wouldn’t be a problem for
him), cutoff jeans, and head bands. What also might affect ponyboy would be the
culture change. Such as more rebellious people in the streets, more drug use, crime,
and bad influences.
The new 1969 boss 302 mustang
Horsepower: 350
RPM’S: 3,600
The meanest, the toughest, car out there!!
Get yours today!
Dustin Lee Hoffman[1] (born August 8, 1937)[1]
is an American actor with a career in film,
television, and theatre since 1960. He has been
known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and
vulnerable types of characters.[2]
He first drew critical praise for the 1966 OffBroadway play Eh? for which he won a Theatre
World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was
soon followed by his breakthrough movie role as
Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967). Since
then Hoffman's career has largely been focused in
cinema with only sporadic returns to television and
the stage. Some of his most noted films are Papillon,
Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man,
Lenny, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer,
Tootsie, Rain Man, and Wag the Dog.
Hoffman has won two Academy Awards, five
Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, three Drama Desk
Awards, a Genie Award, and an Emmy Award.
Dustin Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement
Award in 1999.
Summary
My opinion on 1969 is that it had its ups
and downs. Such as that it has some
awesome that we went to the moon, and
the awesome music and cars. Though what
was bad about 1969 was all the drug use,
crime, riots, and all the rebellious people.
But I also think that what all happened back
then has contributed to the American spirit
that we see now a day. It has contributed to
all the new developments in space flight,
technology, computers, culture, society,
engineering, cars music and all types of
things.