Storylines throughout the decade included: a mystery poison-pen letter received by Elsie Tanner, the 1962 marriage of Ken Barlow and Valerie Tatlock, the death of Martha Longhurst in 1964, the birth of the Barlow twins in 1965, Elsie Tanner's wedding to Steve Tanner as well as a train crashing from the viaduct ( both in 1967 ), the murder of Steve Tanner in 1968, and a coach crash in 1969.

In 1968, Alston received a presidential appointment from Lyndon Johnson to the National Council of Culture and the Arts.

Concurrently, McLean attended night school at Iona College and received a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1968.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

In 1968, Khorana, Holley and Nirenberg received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work.

The technology was developed by Italian physicist Federico Faggin in 1968, who later joined Intel in order to develop the very first Central Processing Unit ( CPU ) on one chip ( Intel 4004 ), for which he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2010.

He received grants from the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and the Ford Foundation in 1968. in 1970, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award for literature.

During a tour of the Midlands in England on September 16, 1968, he received the news that his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, had burned down and his two eldest sons had died.

Abrikosov and Ginzburg were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for their work ( Landau had received the 1962 Nobel Prize for other work, and died in 1968 ).

He received his bachelor's degree ( 1968 ) and PhD ( 1977 ) from the University of California, Los Angeles.

He attended Officer Candidate School and received his commission in August 1968.

Walt Disney received the Congressional Gold Medal on May 24, 1968 ( P. L.

In 1968, there existed only of Syrah vineyards in France, primarily in the traditional appellations of northern Rhône, which at that time had not received much attention in the wine world for several decades, and the vineyards of which were not planted to full capacity.

Pierpont and Makley received the death penalty, while Clark received a life sentence ( he ultimately was released in 1968, and died of cancer a few months later ).

* René Cassin – French jurist, law professor and judge, former student of Nice's Lycée Massena, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968

In 1964, the net income received by the average wage earner, when on unemployment or sickness benefit, was only 45 % of what he received at work, whereas by 1968 the figure had increased to 75 %.

The creation of the Refuge Act began with hearings by the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security from 1965 – 1968, which recommended that congress create a uniform system for refugees, but received little support.

Mobutu and his family were received as personal guests of the Belgian monarch in 1968, and a convention for scientific and technical cooperation was signed that same year.

For the 1968 model year, Beetles sold outside North America received the same more upright and forward headlamp placement, but with replaceable-bulb headlamps compliant with ECE regulations rather than the US sealed beams.

It was well received when the principal and the staff in the board of education saw it in December 1968.

Patchen's most important volume, The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen, first published in 1968 also received largely positive reviews.

Upon release in November 1968, the album received largely positive reviews and reached number 1 on the charts in the United Kingdom and the United States.

After the events of May 1968, Marker felt a moral obligation to abandon his own personal film career and devote himself to SLON and its activities.

During his days in Atlanta, Aaron reached a number of milestones ; he was only the eighth player ever to hit 500 career home runs, with his 500th coming against Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants on July 14, 1968 — exactly one year after former teammate Eddie Mathews had hit his 500th.

During the 1960s, Clemente batted over. 300 in every year except 1968, when, thanks to yet another freak off-season injury ( à la 1965 ), he got off to the worst start of his major league career, hitting just. 245 by the All-Star break, and doing well just to reach. 291 by season's end.

He ended his career with a six-hour, two-part toga and chariot epic, Der Kampf um Rom ( 1968 ), oddly more campy ( perhaps intentionally, one hopes ) than Cobra Woman had been.

In 1968, he was rejected for an arts school and instead focused on a career in law.

These included Gaylord Perry, who pitched a no-hitter with the Giants in 1968 ; Juan Marichal, a pitcher with a memorable high-kicking delivery ; McCovey, who won the National League MVP award in 1969, and Mays, who hit his 600th career home run in 1969.

In July 1968, Durham announced that she was leaving the Seekers to pursue a solo career and the group disbanded.

She had planned on becoming an English teacher, but she and Buckingham dropped out in 1968 to move to Los Angeles in pursuit of a music career when Nicks ' family moved to Chicago.

In 1968 the Lawrence Hall of Science public science education center was established in honor of Ernest O. Lawrence, who had been throughout his career a passionate advocate of encouraging public interest in science, particularly among schoolchildren.

Starting his international sporting career only in his late thirties at the 1968 Winter Olympics of Grenoble, Krienbühl mostly skated at the back of the field.

In his political career, Turner held several prominent Cabinet posts, including minister of justice and minister of finance, under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau from 1968 to 1975.

By the end of the decade, Davis had appeared in the British films The Nanny ( 1965 ), The Anniversary ( 1968 ), and Connecting Rooms ( 1970 ), but her career again stalled.

During a major league record 27-year baseball career, he pitched in 1966 and from 1968 to 1993 for four different teams: the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers.

Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 ), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam ( 1968 ), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus ( 1979 ).

After her athletic career, Blankers-Koen served as the team leader of the Dutch athletics team, from the 1958 European Championships to the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Unfortunately, an ill timed trade was made during the 1968 season which sent the popular home grown DeBusschere to the New York Knicks for Howard Komives and Walt Bellamy both who were in the later stages of their career.

As her career in the U. S. began to wind down, she was reduced to appearing in the movie Stay Away, Joe ( 1968 ), playing the half-Apache stepmother of Elvis Presley.

During his career, he pitched for the New York Giants ( 1952 – 1956 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1957 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1957 – 1958 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1958 – 1962 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1963 – 1968 ), California Angels ( 1969 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1969 – 1970 ; 1971 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1970 ), and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1971 – 1972 ).

Wilhelm set MLB records with the most consecutive errorless games for a pitcher, games pitched for a relief pitcher, most career victories in relief, most games finished, most innings pitched in relief, and most games pitched during the 1968 season.

Webb's solo career got off to a rough start with the 1968 " counterfeit " solo album Jimmy Webb sings Jimmy Webb ( Epic ), which was produced, according to Webb, " by a bunch of ruffians from some old demos of mine and tarted up to sound like ' MacArthur Park '.

His career was highlighted by many world record times and a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland ( 31 August 1872 – 23 May 1968 ; aged 95 ), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta ( née Ruse ; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975 ; aged 88 ) was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband – she would return to work after her daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine.

A number of performers also enjoyed a renaissance by adopting country sounds, including: the Everly Brothers, whose Roots album ( 1968 ) is usually considered some of their finest work ; former teen idol Rick Nelson who became the frontman for the Stone Canyon Band ; John Fogerty, who left Creedence Clearwater Revival behind for the country sounds of The Blue Ridge Rangers ; Mike Nesmith, who had experimented with country sounds while with The Monkees, formed the First National Band ; and Neil Young who moved in and out of the genre throughout his career.

After performing in summer stock and teaching English as a substitute teacher in the Bronx, she began her performing career in 1968, appearing for a year Off-Broadway with the improvisational group, The Fourth Wall.

Sonny and Cher's career had stalled by 1968 as album sales quickly dried up.