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EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK:
1959 – The Year I Turned
Three
This year my bio-computer developed the ability
to communicate and exchange information with my parents. This
ability was still basically primitive but effective for my
simple needs. It is amazing that compared to the previous two
years my ability to navigate around my environment had increased
a thousand fold and much to the dismay of my mother my newfound
proficiency had me getting into everything that I shouldn’t
have.
Also, this year unbeknownst to me, we as a nation, celebrated
the admission of Hawaii into the union.
In Cuba Batista flees
Havana because Castro was kicking ass while becoming premier of
Cuba and then he took over the Mafia’s casinos and executed over
seventy supporters of Batista.
More efforts on the
Arms Race and the first successful test firing of the Titan
Intercontinental ballistic missile occur at Cape Canaveral,
Florida.
Communism spread its
evil tentacles and this year an uprising in Tibet erupted
when the local Tibetans revolted against the Chinese Communist
rule. The Chinese stripped away the government of Tibet and sent
the Dali Lama into exile. Many people in the U.S. spoke of how
the ‘horrors’ of communism was continuing to spread; fear was a
major contagion.
This was the year that
the leaders of democracy and communism argue. Vice
President Nixon went to the American National Exposition in
Moscow where he and Soviet Premier Khrushchev engaged in a
so-called, ‘Kitchen debate’ on the merits of Capitalism and
Communism. Many people felt that this debate further widened the
schism between our countries.
Lee Harvey Oswald had
defected to Moscow and he announced to the world that he won’t
ever return to the U.S. (Where would we be today if only he made
good on his promise?)
In Olduvai Gorge,
Tanzania –Louis and his wife Mary Leakey discovered the first
Australopithecus skull. Years later, one of my future fiancées’
would work in Tanzania for their son and I would see evidence
for the living relative of the Australopithecus called the
Australopatheticus (Most commonly know as Postal Managers).
Barbie Dolls make
their appearance and much to the dismay of the American public
the U.S. Steel industry went on strike. In the Congo, the first
known human dies from HIV.
A Great Cultural Loss
happened during February of this year, the chartered
plane containing musicians Buddy Holly Richie Valens and the Big
Bopper goes down in a snowstorm, killing all on the plane. The
tragedy is later called “The Day the Music Died”, made popular
in Don McLeans’s song, “American Pie”.
The Space Race incites
Competition and Optimism and NASA chooses the seven
military pilots who had “The Right Stuff” to become the first
U.S. Astronauts. The X-15 makes its first Flight from a B-52
bomber. It set many speed records, obtaining a top speed of Mach
6. I think the Pilot was Chuck Yeager and he felt that the men
with the right stuff were going to be so much “Spam in a Can”
This year Nobel prizes
was awarded to Emilio Gino Segre’ and Owen Chamberlain for
physics; Jaroslav Heyrosky’ for chemistry; Severo Ochoa and
Arthur Kornberg for Physiology or Medicine; Salvatore Quasimodo
for literature and Philip John Noel-Baker for Peace.
Some of the new music of this year were:
Frankie Avalon, Come Softly to Me, by The Fleetwoods,
The Happy Organ by Dave “Baby Cortex, Kansas City by
Wilbert Harrison, The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny
Horton, Lonely Boy by Paul Anka, A Big Hunk O’ Love
by Elvis Presley, The Three Bells by the Browns, Mack
the Knife by Bobby Darin, Come Dance with Me, Frank
Sinatra and But Not for Me by Ella Fitzgerald.
Some of the movies came out were:
Auntie Mame, Shaggy Dog, Some Like it Hot, Imitation of Life,
The Nun’s Story, Anatomy of a Murder, North by Northwest, Rio
Bravo, Sleeping Beauty, Some Came Running.
New TV Shows
such as the Red Skeleton Show, Father Knows Best, The Price is
Right and Wanted: Dead or Alive; now filled in more slots,
Bonanza, Dennis the Menace, Fibber McGee and Molly, Johnny Ringo,
Laramie, Manhunt, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Phillip
Marlowe, Rawhide, The Rebel, Riverboat, Shirley Temple’s
Storybook, The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables.
Other Starship Primates
Launched in 1959
This year other notable people came on the scene and they would prove
to be crucial to our culture or some of the females destined to become
one of my many potential mates… also
crucial to our culture. They are: Tom Arnold - American actor
and comedian, Kevin Spacey - American actor, Koichi Tanaka -
Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
Rosanna Arquette - American actress and a potential mate,
Magic Johnson - American basketball player, “Weird Al”
Yankovic - American singer and parodist, Val Kilmer -
American actor.
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(EXODUS)
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(JUDGMENT DAY)
ADVENTURES IN MARINE BIOLOGY
THE MARINES: GOD'S CHOSEN
WARRIORS
VINCE'S GYM
CONVERSATIONS WITH NEO
NEO TEACHES ME THE ART OF WAR
& PEACE;
His Version of The Matrix
MEMORIES OF MY FATHERS
ZEN & THE ART OF RESISTANCE
TRAINING:
A Yogic & Scientific Approach To Weight
Lifting
ZEN & THE BIOLOGY OF
TRANSCENDENCE:
The First Matrix of Psychic
Phenomena
ZEN & THE ART OF KINESIOLOGY:
The Yogic & Scientific
Approach To Movement
ZEN & YOUR ENERGY SYSTEMS
ZEN & VARIOUS ASPECTS OF
TRAINING
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(GENESIS)
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