Ritzville High School graduated 43 students in 1960; 20 women and 23 men. The Alumni Association has been unable to find 2 of those graduates and 4 are deceased. Here are some trivia highlights of 1960...how many trigger a memory for you?

In the U.S., reports of rigged TV quiz shows ($64,000 Question and Dotto, among others) invited federal legislation setting stiff fines for video fraud.

U.S. scientists Charles H. Townes and Arthur L. Schawlow patented the laser, acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation."

Feb. 16-May 10 The U.S. atomic submarine Triton circumnavigated the globe underwater.

Apr. 1 The U.S. launched the first weather satellite, Tiros 1.

May 5 A U.S. Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance jet with CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers at the controls was shot down over Sverdlovsk, Russia. In captivity Powers confessed to violation of Soviet air space and was sentenced to 10 years in Soviet prisons. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev seized the incident as a demonstration of American treachery, and the affair aborted a scheduled summit meeting between the Soviet leader and President Eisenhower. Ike discontinued the U-2 flights, switching instead to satellites to photograph Russian territory. As for Powers, he was exchanged in February, 1962, for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. No longer much use to the CIA, Powers later found work monitoring auto traffic from a helicopter for a Los Angeles radio station. He died in a helicopter accident in 1977.

Sept. 26-Oct. 17 An estimated 8 million Americans watched presidential candidates Richard Nixon and John Kennedy square off in four TV debates. Neither candidate knocked the other out of the box. Most watching scored the series a narrow Kennedy victory, while many who listened to the debates on radio declared Nixon the winner.

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