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Sports
NBA: Boston Celtics vs. LA Lakers Series: 4-3
NCAA Football: Notre Dame & Michigan State record: 9-0-1 & 9-0-1
Heisman Trophy: Steve Spurrier, florida, QB points: 1,679
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens vs. Detroit Red Wings Score: 4-2
US Open Golf: Billy Casper Score: 278 Course: Olympic CC Location: San Francisco
World Cup: England vs. West Germany Series: 4-2
World Series: Baltimore Orioles vs. LA Dodgers Series: 4-0
Popular Music of 1965
1."The Sound of Silence" ... Simon and Garfunkel
2."We Can Work It Out" ... The Beatles
3."My Love" ... Petula Clark
4."Lightnin' Strikes" ... Lou Christie
5."These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" ... Nancy Sinatra
6."The Ballad of the Green Berets" ... Sgt. Barry Sadler
7."Soul and Inspiration" ... The Righteous Brothers
8."Good Lovin'" ... The Young Rascals
9."Monday, Monday" ... The Mamas and the Papas
10."When a Man Loves a Woman" ... Percy Sledge
Popular Movies
1. Thunderball
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. That Darn Cat
5. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
6. Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN
7. The Silencers
8. Torn Curtain
9. Our Man Flint
10. A Patch of Blue
Grammy Awards
Record of the Year: "Strangers in the Night" ... Frank Sinatra
"Michelle" ... John Lennon, Paul McCartney "Sinatra: A Man and His Music" ... Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra ... "Strangers in the Night" Edyie Gorme ... "If He Walked into My Life Today"
Academy Awards
Best Picture: "A Man for All Seasons"
Best Director: Fred Zinnemann ... "A Man for All Seasons"
Best Actor: Paul Scofield ... "A Man for All Seasons"
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor ... "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
WOODWARD, ROBERT BURNS, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1917, d. 1979:
"for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis"
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Literature
SHOLOKHOV, MICHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH, USSR, b. 1905, d. 1984:
"for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he
has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people"
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Peace
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND (UNICEF) New York, founded by U.N. in 1946. An international aid organization.
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Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to:
JACOB, FRAN&Mac226;OIS, France, Institut Pasteur, Paris, b. 1920;
LWOFF, ANDRE, France, Institut Pasteur, Paris, b. 1902, d. 1994; and
MONOD, JACQUES, France, Institut Pasteur, Paris, b. 1910, d. 1976:
"for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus
synthesis"
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Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to:
TOMONAGA, SIN-ITIRO, Japan, Tokyo, University of Education, Tokyo, b. 1906, d. 1979;
SCHWINGER, JULIAN, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1918, d.
1994; and
FEYNMAN, RICHARD P., U.S.A., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA, b. 1918, d. 1988:
"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing
consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
Pulitzer Prizes
Drama:Frank D. Gilory..."The Subject Was Roses"
Fiction:Shirley Ann Grau..."The Keepers of the House
"History: Irwin Unger..."The Greenabck Era"
International Reporting:J.A. Livingston..."Philadelphia Bulletin"
National Reporting: Louis M. Kohlneier..."Wall Street Journal"
Public Service: "Hutchinson (Kans.) News"
Most Popular Books
Fiction
1."The Source"...James A. Michener. Random House
2."Up the Down Staircase"...Bel Kaufman. Prentice-Hall
3."Herzog"... Saul Bellow. Viking Press
4."The Looking Glass War"...John Le Carre. Coward-McCann
5."The Green Berets"...Robin Moore. Crown
6."Those Who Love"...Irving Stone. Doubleday
7."The Man with the Golden Gun"... Ian Fleming. New American
Library
8."Hotel"... Arthur Hailey. Doubleday
9."The Ambassador"... Morris West. Morrow
10. "Don't Stop the Carnival" ...Herman Wouk, Doubleday
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Nonfiction
1."How To Be a Jewish Mother" ...Dan Greenburg. Price/Stern/ Sloan
2."A Gift of Prophecy" ...Ruth Montgomery. Morrow
3."Games People Play"... Eric Berne, M.D. Grove Press
4."World Aflame"... Billy Graham. Doubleday
5."Happiness Is a Dry Martini"...Johnny Carson. Doubleday
6."Markings"...Dag Hammarskjold. Knopf
7."A Thousand Days"... Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Houghton Mifflin
8."My Shadow Ran Fast"...Bill Sands. Prentice-Hall
9."Kennedy"...Theodore C. Sorensen. Harper & Row
10."The Making of the President, 1964" ... Theodore H. White.
Atheneum
Most Popular Television Shows
1. Bonanza (NBC)
2. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS)
3. The Lucy Show (CBS)
4. The Red Skelton Hour (CBS)
5. Batman (Thur.) (ABC)
6. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)
7. Bewitched (ABC)
8. The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS)
9. Hogan's Heroes (CBS)
10. Batman (Wed.) (ABC)
