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.

* In 1968 Abergavenny was the title of a UK single by Marty Wilde.

The situation was reversed by the end of the decade, with Baltimore winning the 1968 NFL title while New York would arrive at continuously less impressive results.

Philby occupied himself by writing his memoirs, published in England in 1968 under the title My Silent War.

Anderson is best remembered as a film maker for his " Mick Travis trilogy ", all of which star Malcolm McDowell as the title character: If .... ( 1968 ), a satire on public schools ; O Lucky Man!

She rounded out 1967 with the raunchy but low-charting " Tony Rome " (# 83 ) — the title track from the detective film Tony Rome starring her father — while her first solo single in 1968 was the more wistful " 100 Years " (# 69 ).

In the case Dawn Associates v. Links, Romero accused Russo of " appropriat part of the title of the prior work ", plagiarizing Dawn of the Deads advertising slogan (" When there is no more room in hell [...] the dead will walk the earth "), and copying stills from the original 1968 film.

According to its title, the Theft Act 1968 revises the law as to theft and similar or associated offences.

** Ohio State defeats USC in the Rose Bowl to win the national title for the 1968 season.

In explaining his refusal to be conscripted to fight the Vietnam War ( 1965 – 75 ), professional boxer Muhammed Ali said, " No Vietcong ever called me nigger "; later, his modified answer was the title No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger ( 1968 ) of a documentary about the front-line lot of the US Army Black soldier in combat in Vietnam.

In December 1968, Hoffman returned to Broadway to appear in the title role of Murray Schisgal and John Sebastian's musical Jimmy Shine.

The MVD regained its original title in 1968.

He participated in hurdling events in four Olympic Games, winning the title in 1968.

After Abebe Bikila had won the 1964 Olympic marathon, four years later at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Wolde became the second Ethiopian to win the title in the marathon.

In 1968, she played the title role in the science fiction spoof Barbarella, directed by her French film director husband Roger Vadim, which established her status as a sex symbol.

She also starred in 1968 with Steve McQueen in the caper film The Thomas Crown Affair ( and had a small role in the 1999 remake with the same title with Pierce Brosnan ).

Curtis ' comedies include Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), Sex and the Single Girl ( 1964 ) and The Great Race ( 1965 ), and his dramas included playing the slave Antoninus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus ( 1960 ) co-starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, The Outsider ( 1961 ), the true story of WW II veteran Ira Hayes, and The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), in which he played the self-confessed murderer of the film's title, Albert DeSalvo.

* 1968 Shocking Blue ( Polydor ) also known as " Beat With Us " ( German title )

In 1968, she returned to the Olympics to defend her title in the 100 m. In the final, she set a new World Record of 11. 08 to become the first woman to retain the Olympic 100 m title.

In 1968, the Lakers acquired four time MVP Wilt Chamberlain to play center, and after losing in the Finals in 1969 and 1970, they won their sixth NBA title — and first in Los Angeles — in 1972, led by new head coach Bill Sharman.

The first film — full title: A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe — was a prototype and was completed in 1968 ; the second film — Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero — was completed in 1977.

While the team failed to capture the league title, it did succeed in finishing in the top five every year until 1968 – 69, with two third-place finishes, and also won its first two Copa del Rey titles and the 1963 – 64 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.

The Tlatelolco massacre, also known as The Night of Tlatelolco ( from a book title by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska ), was the killing of student and civilian protesters as well as bystanders by Mexican government employees that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City.

His agent suggested that this should be the title of his memoirs, which appeared in 1968.