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A New World to be Won.
The early 1960s in America were a time of hope, energy, and prosperity, a time when the United States settled confidently into its role as a superpower possessed of military might and financial clout. "It is a time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities," the new president John F. Kennedy told the nation in 1960. "For there is a new world to be won."
Prosperity.
Unemployment was between five and six percent in the first half of the decade, and inflation hovered between 1 and 2 percent. The gross national product, the value of goods produced by the national workforce, increased almost 36 percent between 1960 and 1965, and salaries increased about 20 percent during the same period. Generally, people had more money than ever before and more goods available to spend it on.
The Global Village.
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