1966
Some criticized this new health care plan for the elderly as a step toward socialized medicine
Medicare
Purchase one sack-encased sow
buy a pig in a poke
Shot for hides, 3,500 tons of their bones were hauled by the Santa Fe railroad in 1874
buffalo
Return of the Killer tomatoes", 1988 sequel to this "classic", grossed a whopping $20,000
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
On T\/'s "Get Smart", this was the number of the agent who gave birth to twins
99
On July 17 Jim Ryun set a new record by running this race in 3 min. 51.3 sec.
the mile
Allow little bits of wood to plummet haphazardly
let the chips fall where they may
In the old West if an outlaw died of "hemp fever", he died in this way
hanging
When Gene Kelly broke an ankle, he came out of retirement to stroll down the avenue in "Easter Parade"
Fred Astaire
Amazingly on July 8, 1987 the Dodgers lost this many baseball games in St. Louis
3
One of the fashion fads of the year was the disposable dress made of this
paper
Rehearsal produces flawlessness
practice makes perfect
In 1891 this was discovered in Poverty Gulch, Colorado by Robert Womack, a cowboy who died in poverty
gold
In "Beaches", 46-year-old Lanie Kazan plays the mother of this 43-year-old
Bette Midler
WWI doughboys used to say this many "Frenchmen can't be wrong", even though there weren't that many
50 million
Bill Cosby took home an Emmy for his role as Alexander Scott in this series
I Spy
Use one's teeth to tear out a hunk whose size exceeds one's mastication ability
bite off more than you can chew
Group of California-bound settlers who made the fatal mistake of taking the "Hastings Cut-Off" in 1846
the Donner party
In 1947 he played Macy's Santa both on film & in its Thanksgiving parade
Edmund Gwenn
Number of "lords a-leaping" in the song "The Twelve Days Of Christmas"
10
Arthur Schlesinger's history of the Kennedy administration that won a Pulitzer in 1966
A Thousand Days
Pleasant tourist spot, yes; residence, no
it's a great place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there
During the peak year, 1871, Texans drove about 600,000 cattle north to Abilene, Kansas on this route
the Chisholm Trail
"Hercules" & "Hercules Unchained" starring this muscleman are available, uncut, on home video
Steve Reeves
In Italian art & literature "quattrocentro refers to the style of this century
the 15th