V published 1961

[Ian Livingston]

> Richard Feynman did some lectures on physics that fall, too. some of it was
> recorded for posterity er wutever...

Yeah, Six Easy Pieces, lively listening. Weren't these lectures before
his Gunpowder-oh, I mean, Nobel- Prize? R.F. was also the youngest of
the Bomb builders, wasn't he?


On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:49 PM, david meyer <davidmeyer81 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>
>> The wikipedia on 1961 is almost Pynchonian itself beginning with  an
>> observation from Mad Magazine
>>
>> As MAD Magazine pointed out on its cover for the March 1961 issue, this
>> was the first "upside-up" year—i.e., one in which the numerals that form the
>> year look the same as when the numerals are rotated upside down—since 1881,
>> and the last until 6009.
>>
>> COUPLE THREE EVENTS
>>
>> Kennedy ( not Nixon) in, Ike out.
>>
>> Dylan arrives in NYC to visit  Woody Guthrie in hospital
>>
>> Bay of Pigs
>>
>> Gagarin first human to orbit earth in spaceflight, "The Earth is blue
>> [...] How wonderful. It is amazing."—Gagarin, to ground control.  Alan
>> Shepherd comes in second.
>>
>> In Portugal, a coup attempt against António de Oliveira Salazar fails.
>>
>> Algiers putsch: Four French generals who oppose de Gaulle's policies in
>> Algeria fail in a coup attempt.
>>
>>
>>  U.S. Freedom Riders begin interstate bus rides to test the new U.S.
>> Supreme Court integration decision. A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near
>> Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry
>> mob. Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the
>> peace" after disembarking from their bus.
>>
>> Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58-megaton yield hydrogen
>> bomb known as Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya. It remains the largest ever
>> man-made explosion. Now all God's chillun got bombs.
>>
>> Catch-22 is first published by Joseph Heller
>>
>> The Beatles perform for their first time at the Cavern Club
>>
>>
>> The Fantastic Four #1 comic debuts, launching the Marvel Universe and
>> revolutionizing the American comic book industry.
>>
>>  Erwin Schrödinger, Dashiell Hammett, Lee DeForest,  Ernest Hemingway, Dag
>> Hammarskjöld, and many other people died, paying the cost of admission, a
>> payment most put off to the last possible moment.
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