1962
WORLD HEADLINES
- France transfers sovereignty to new republic of Algeria (July 3).
- USSR to build missile bases in Cuba; Kennedy orders Cuban blockade, lifts blockade after Russia backs down (Aug.-Nov.).
- Cuba releases 1,113 prisoners of 1961 invasion attempt (Dec. 24).
- Burundi, Jamaica, Western Samoa, Uganda, and Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
ENTERTAINMENT
- Marilyn Monroe dies of a drug overdose at age 36.
- The first transatlantic television transmission occurs via the Telstar Satellite, making worldwide television a reality.
No 1 Records
1.Cliff Richard and The Shadows - "The Young Ones" January 11 for 6 weeks
2.Elvis Presley - "Rock-A-Hula Baby/Can't Help Falling In Love" February 22 for 4 weeks
3.The Shadows - "Wonderful Land" March 22 for 8 weeks
4.B. Bumble and the Stingers - "Nut Rocker" May 17 for 1 week
5.Elvis Presley - "Good Luck Charm" May 24 for 5 weeks
6.Mike Sarne with Wendy Richard - "Come Outside" June 28 for 2 weeks
7.Ray Charles - "I Can't Stop Lovin' You" July 12 for 2 weeks
8.Frank Ifield - "I Remember You" July 26 for 7 weeks
9.Elvis Presley - "She's Not You" September 13 for 3 weeks
10.The Tornados - "Telstar" October 4 for 5 weeks
11.Frank Ifield - "Lovesick Blues" November 8 for 5 weeks
12.Elvis Presley - "Return to Sender" December 13 for 3 weeks
Top Movies
Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Divorce-Italian Style
Top Books
James Baldwin "Another Country", Rachel Carson "Silent Spring", Robert Frost "In the Clearing", Günter Grass "The Tin Drum"
Ken Kesey "One Flew Over the Cuckoo' Nest", Sylvia Plath "The Colossus and Other Poems", Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones"
William Stafford "Traveling through the Dark", Richard Yates "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness"
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes:- Fiction: "The Edge of Sadness" Edwin O'Connor; Music: "The Crucible" Robert Ward
Drama: "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
Oscars:- Best Picture: "West Side Story", Robert Wise, producer (United Artists)
Nobel Prize for Literature:- John Steinbeck
Grammys:- Record of the Year: "Moon River" Henry Mancini; Album of the Year: "Judy at Carnegie Hall", Judy Garland
Song of the Year: "Moon River," Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, songwriters
Science
- Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., is first American to orbit Earth - three times in 4 hours 55 minutes (Feb. 20
- Mariner II, the first interplanetary probe, reaches Venus. Background: US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar Programs
- Unimation introduces the first industrial robot.
- The commercially sponsored Telstar communications satellite is launched.
Sport
Wimbledon:- Women: Karen Susman d. V. Sukova (6-4 6-4); Men: Rod Laver d. M. Mulligan (6-2 6-2 6-1)
World Cup:- Brazil d. Czechoslovakia (3-1)
1963
WORLD HEADLINES
- France and West Germany sign treaty of cooperation ending four centuries of conflict (Jan. 22).
- Pope John XXIII dies (June 3), and is succeeded June 21 by Cardinal Montini, who becomes Paul VI.
- British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns in the wake of an affair with Christine Keeler.
- Washington-to-Moscow "hot line" communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war.
- Kenya achieves independence.
- President Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas, Tex. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President same day (Nov. 22).
- Lee Harvey Oswald, accused Kennedy assassin, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby (Nov. 24).
ENTERTAINMENT
- Viewers tuned into NBC witness Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on camera - the first live telecast of a murder.
- Beatlemania hits the U.K. John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, take Britain by storm.
- The Rolling Stones emerge as the anti-Beatles, with an aggressive, blues-derived style.
No 1 Records
1.Cliff Richard and The Shadows - "The Next Time/Batchelor Boy" January 3 for 3 weeks
2.The Shadows - "Dance On!" January 24 for 1 week
3.Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - "Diamonds" January 31 for 3 weeks
4.Frank Ifield - "The Wayward Wind" February 21 for 3 weeks
5.Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "Summer Holiday" March 14 for 2 weeks
6.The Shadows - "Foot Tapper" March 28 for 1 week
7.Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "Summer Holiday" April 4 for 1 week
8.Gerry & the Pacemakers - "How Do You Do It?" April 11 for 3 weeks
9.The Beatles - "From Me To You" May 2 for 7 weeks
10.Gerry & the Pacemakers - "I Like It" June 20 for 4 weeks
11.Frank Ifield - "Confessin' (That I Love You)" July 18 for 2 weeks
12.Elvis Presley - "(You're The) Devil In Disguise" August 1 for 1 week
13.The Searchers - "Sweets For My Sweet" August 8 for 2 weeks
14.Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas - "Bad To Me" August 22 for 3 weeks
15.The Beatles - "She Loves You" September 12 for 4 weeks
16.Brian Poole & The Tremeloes - "Do You Love Me?" October 10 for 3 weeks
17.Gerry & the Pacemakers - "You'll Never Walk Alone" October 31 for 4 weeks
18.The Beatles - "She Loves You" November 28 for 2 weeks
19.The Beatles - "I Want to Hold Your Hand" December 7 for 5 weeks
Top Movies
Tom Jones, Lilies of the Field, America
Top Books
James Baldwin "The Fire Next Time", E E cummings "73 Poems", Betty Friedan "The Feminine Mystique"
Sylvia Plath "The Bell Jar", John Rechy "City of Night", Charles M. Schulz "Happiness is a Warm Puppy"
John Updike "The Centaur", Kurt Vonnegut "Cat's Cradle"
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes:- Fiction: "The Reivers" William Faulkner, Music: "Piano Concerto No. 1" Samuel Barber
Oscars:- Best Picture: "Lawrence of Arabia" Sam Spiegel, producer (Columbia)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Giorgios Seferis (Seferiades) (Greece)
Grammys:- Record of the Year: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" Tony Bennett
Album of the Year: "The First Family" Vaughn Meader (Cadence)
Song of the Year: "What Kind of Fool Am I" Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, songwriters
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Carl Ziegler (Germany) and Giulio Natta (Italy), for work in uniting simple hydrocarbons into large molecule substances
Physics: Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen, for research on structure of atom and its nucleus
Physiology or Medicine: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley and Sir John Carew Eccles, for research on nerve cells
- Quasars are discovered by Marten Schmidt (US).
- The first liver transplant is performed by F.D. Moore and T.E. Starzl. Background: Health & Nutrition
- The first commercial nuclear reactor goes online at the Jersey Central Power Company. Background: nuclear energy
- The sedative Valium (chlordiazepoxide) is developed by Roche labs.
Sport
Wimbledon: - Women: Margaret Smith d. B.J. Moffitt (6-3 6-4), Men: Chuck McKinley d. F. Stolle (9-7 6-1 6-4)
1964
WORLD HEADLINES
- Nobel Peace Prize: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa (June 11).
- Khrushchev is deposed; Kosygin becomes premier and Brezhnev becomes first secretary of the Communist Party (October).
- China detonates its first atomic bomb. Background: nuclear weapons
- Jack Ruby convicted of murder in slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald.
ENTERTAINMENT
- Folk musician Bob Dylan becomes increasingly popular during this time of social protest.
- Psychedelic bands such as The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane enjoy great success.
- Peyton Place premieres on ABC and is the first prime-time soap opera. Color television makes its way into U.S. homes.
- The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
No 1 Records
1.Dave Clark Five - "Glad All Over" January 16 for 2 weeks
2.The Searchers - "Needles & Pins" January 30 for 3 weeks
3.Bachelors - "Diane" February 20 for 1 week
4.Cilla Black - "Anyone Who Had A Heart" February 27 for 3 weeks
5.Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas - "Little Children" March 19 for 2 weeks
6.The Beatles - "Can't Buy me Love" April 2 for 3 weeks
7.Peter & Gordon - "A World Without Love" April 23 for 2 weeks
8.The Searchers - "Don't Throw Your Love Away" May 7 for 2 weeks
9.The Four Pennies - "Juliet" May 21 for 1 week
10.Cilla Black - "You're My World" May 28 for 4 weeks
11.Roy Orbison - "It's Over" June 25 for 2 weeks
12.The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun" July 9 for 1 week
13.Rolling Stones - "It's All Over Now" July 16 for 1 week
14.The Beatles - "A Hard Day's Night" July 23 for 3 weeks
15.Manfred Mann - "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" August 13 for 2 weeks
16.The Honeycombs - "Have I The Right" August 27 for 2 weeks
17.The Kinks - "You Really Got Me" September 10 for 2 weeks
18.Herman's Hermits - "I'm Into Something Good" September 24 for 2 weeks
19.Roy Orbison - "Oh, Pretty Woman" October 8 for 2 weeks
20.Sandie Shaw - "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" October 22 for 3 weeks
21.Roy Orbison - "Oh, Pretty Woman" November 12 for 1 week
22.The Supremes - "Baby Love" November 19 for 2 weeks
23.Rolling Stones - "Little Red Rooster" December 3 for 1 week
24.The Beatles - "I Feel Fine" December 10 for 5 weeks
Top Movies
Red Desert, Dr Strangelove, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Zorba the Greek, Becket
Top Books
Donald Barthelme "Come Back, Dr. Caligari", John Berryman "77 Dream Songs", John Cheever "The Wapshot Scandal"
James Dickey "Helmets, Two Poems of the Air", John Hawkes "Second Skin", Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"
Katherine Anne Porter "Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter", Hubert Selby "Last Exit to Brooklyn"
Entertainment Awards
Oscars:- Best Picture: "Tom Jones", Tony Richardson, producer (United Artists-Lopert Pictures)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Jean-Paul Sartre (France) (declined)
Grammys: - Record of the Year: "The Days of Wine and Roses" Henry Mancini
Album of the Year: "The Barbra Streisand Album", Barbra Streisand (Columbia)
Song of the Year: "The Days of Wine and Roses," Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, composers
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin for determining structure of compounds needed in combatting pernicious anemia
Physics: Charles Hard Townes, Nikolai G. Basov and Aleksandr M. Prochorov, for developing maser and laser principle of producing high-intensity radiation
Physiology or Medicine: Konrad E. Bloch and Feodor Lynen, for research on mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty-acid metabolism
- Ranger VII takes 4,316 high-resolution pictures of the moon. Background: US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar Programs
- US Surgeon General Luther Terry affirms that cigarette smoking causes cancer. Background: nuclear energy
Sport
Wimbledon:- Women: Maria Bueno d. M. Smith (6-4 7-9 6-3), Men: Roy Emerson d. F. Stolle (6-4 12-10 4-6 6-3)
Olympics - Tokyo
Twenty-six years after Japan's wartime government forced the Japanese Olympic Committee to resign as hosts of the 1940 Summer Games, Tokyo welcomed the world to the first Asian Olympics. The new Japan spared no expense-a staggering $3 billion was spent to rebuild the city-and was rewarded with a record-breaking fortnight.
Top 10 Standings
National medal standings are not recognized by the IOC. The unofficial point totals are based on 3 points for a gold medal, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze.
Gold Silver Bronze Total Pts
1 USA 36 26 28 90 188
2 USSR 30 31 35 96 187
3 Germany 10 22 18 50 92
4 Japan 16 5 8 29 66
5 Italy 10 10 7 27 57
6 Hungary 10 7 5 22 49
7 Poland 7 6 10 23 43
8 Great Britain 4 12 2 18 38
9 Australia 6 2 10 18 32
10 Czechoslovakia 5 6 3 14 30
Winter Olympics - Innsbruck
Death and unseasonably mild weather hung over the ninth Winter Games in the Tyrolean Alps.
Two athletes, 50-year-old British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skyszpeski and 19-year-old Australian downhill skier Ross Milne, were killed taking practice runs less than a week before the Games began. And three years before, on Feb. 15, 1961, a plane crash in Belgium had killed 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team-including America's top female skater, 16-year-old Laurence Owen.
Springlike temperatures plagued Innsbruck both before and during the Games, forcing the Austrian military to carry in over 50,000 cubic meters of snow from higher elevations.
Top 10 Standings
National medal standings are not recognized by the IOC. The unofficial point totals are based on 3 points for a gold medal, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze. Total medals are in parentheses.
Gold Silver Bronze Pts
1 USSR (25) 11 8 6 55
2 Norway (15) 3 6 6 27
3 Austria (12) 4 5 3 25
4 Finland (10) 3 4 3 20
5 France (7) 3 4 0 17
6 Sweden (7) 3 3 1 16
Germany (8) 3 2 3 16
8 USA (6) 1 2 3 10
9 Holland (2) 1 1 0 5
Canada (3) 1 0 2 5
Italy (4) 0 1 3 5
LOCKING REVIEWS
The Locking Review magazines were published regularly during the period 1962 to 1965. Most of them are viewable from the 104th Entry web site HERE. CHECK OUT THE ADVERTS! In particular, the edition for Spring 1965 looks at the 100th Entry pass out and lists all postings.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING FILE IS VERY BIG (over 2.5MB). USE RIGHT CLICK AND "SAVE AS" TO AVOID PROBLEMS..........
Also look at the edition for Autumn 1962 HERE and note the 'line artist' in the credits.
RAF LOCKING
The 104th Enty's excellent web site has some great photos of RAF Locking before it was demolished HERE and after it was demolished HERE and HERE .
Also, check out the Locking 'Arrivals Handbook' HERE .
