Benton Township High School - Scarab Yearbook (Benton, IL)

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Nostalgia: We Remember — Overwhelmed by the complexity of contemporary life — and yeaming, perhaps, to escape to a less troubled past — people are looking back to what they regard as more pleasant, peaceful yester- years. The pendulum swings to old memories, old songs, old fads, old styles, old stars. Yesterday's fashions keep showing up for reruns: women with plucked brows are slipping into slinky halters, wedges, and chubby jackets. While men are stepping out in double-breasted suits, two- toned shoes and bow ties. W.C Fields, you must haye noticed is everywhere and everyone is wearing Mickey Mouse watches again. Most school kids remember the good days when they worried about important things like what will Popeye do next and what will happen if Romper Room is cancelled. With a little prompting most teen-agers can remember watching the Beatles making their American debut on the Ed. Sullivan show. Reviewing comics, films and presidential elections, plus television, pop music, and childhood games that unite all Americans, you'll probably have a good start to being nostalgic. By the way, do you remember who Barry Goldwater's running mate was in 1964?

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the good things Tiny Tim tiptocing through the tulips with uke having his wed-in on national television. Annette Funicello intoning M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Whatever happened to “Sock it to me,” “I kid you not,” “Would you believe,” and “Sorry ‘bout that?” Captain Kangaroo and his Dancing Bear. Ma and Pa Clark and their boy Kent. Dick Tracy calling. . . Gotham City being protected by Batman and the Boy Wonder. The little fat bear on your T-shirts. Astronauts landing on the moon. The excitement at Woodstock. John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy are slain. Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, and Sirhan Sirhan cause an entire nation to ask what is wrong with itself. Three rock giants: Joplin, Hendrix, and Morrison. The Beatles preside at their own funeral in Sergeant Pepper. Walt Disney dies bur lives on in the comic books, Love Story and Romeo and Juliet — nor a dry eye in the house Paul McCartney is reported missing but curns up finally. Peter Duel is reported to be dead. Hurricanes, earthquakes, mine cave-ins, riots. the bad things Favorite Autographs SiSel 3 oN ee ay : +o ewe wembee as) - SUR Viel rere ATW HTH Seed bora TV oe ben bn Seeeniern- ies Y eres ees