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The Fifties in America follows the publisher’s successful The Sixties in America. The Fifties, however, has expanded coverage with 640 entries that... prove important enough to make this a priority purchase.

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The Sixties in America
Alice's Restaurant, Altamont,
    Biafra, Flower Children, the Pill,
    & the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Seventies in America
Bellbottoms, Nixon, Fonda, Jaws
    & the Equal Rights Amendment.

The Eighties in America
Reagan, AIDS, the Challenger
    MTV, Yuppies, "Who Shot J.R.?"

The Nineties in America
The Gulf War, dot-coms, Y2K
    impeachment, grunge


The Fifties in America

Editor: John C. Super, West Virginia University
ISBN: 978-1-58765-202-8
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Fifties in America
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Page numbers in boldface type indicate full articles devoted to the topic.

A
A-line skirts, 1104
Aaker, Lee, 898
Aaron, Henry "Hank," 93, 96, 606, 613, 678, 865
AAU. See Amateur Athletic Union
ABA. See American Bar Association
ABC. See American Bowling Congress
Abernathy, Ralph, 854
Abortion, 115
Abramson, Herb, 646
Abrikosov, Alexei, 882
Abstract expressionism, 1-4, 66, 229; De Kooning, Willem, 258-259; Johns,
  Jasper, 516-517; Kline, Franz, 532-533; Motherwell, Robert, 642;
  Pollock, Jackson, 742-743; Rauschenberg, Robert, 767-768
ACA. See Association of Canadian Advertisers
Academy Awards, 4-11, 1017, 1025-1026, 1028; and African Americans, 33;
  Ben-Hur, 109, 1028; and blacklisted writers, 446; ceremony, 8; Giant, 381;
  Streetcar Named Desire, A, 5, 877, 1026; Sunset Boulevard, 882; Taylor, Elizabeth, 892
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 4-11, 318
Acadians, 164, 631
Acheson, Dean, 11-12, 940; and China, 187; and Hiss, Alger, 204; and Truman, Harry S., 11
Acrobats, The (Richler), 571
Across the River and into the Trees (Hemingway), 577
Actors Studio, 12-13, 349, 519, 708, 919, 922; and acting styles, 921; and Brando, Marlon, 519
Adams, Ansel, 567
Adams, Edie, 544
Adams, John G., 64
Adams, Julia, 245
Adams, Sherman, 14, 304, 308; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 14
Adamski, George, 353
Adenauer, Konrad, 378, 681
Adler, Mortimer, 394
Adler, Richard, 919
Adler v. Board of Education of City of New York (1952), 1046
Adventure Magazine, 755
Adventures of Augie March, The (Bellow), 106, 574
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The, 14-15, 88, 229, 907, 1064; and
  Nelson, Ricky, 651, 798, 1064
Adventures of Superman, The, 15-17; and comic books, 214
Advertising, 17-24; and automobiles, 82; and Betty Crocker, 113; and
  censorship, 179, 832; and consumerism, 26-27; and Edsel, 286-288; and fads, 323-326,
  643-644, 718, 839; and Famous Artists School, 327; and housing, 971; in Life, 567;
  in Look, 588; and McLuhan, Marshall, 601-602; and MAD magazine, 602; in
  newspapers, 684; and Nielsen ratings, 687-689; and Packard, Vance, 717; on radio,
  761, 930; in Reader's Digest, 770; in Saturday Evening Post, 814; and
  smoking, 43, 846; and television, 687-689, 906, 909-910, 912; in TV Guide,
  944-945; and United Fruit Company, 960
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations of 1959, 1045
AEC. See Atomic Energy Commission
AFDC. See Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Affair to Remember, An, 1022
Affluence, 24-27; and American Dream, 49-50
Affluent Society, The (Galbraith), 26, 27-28, 386, 477; and
  culture of conformity, 227
AFL. See American Federation of Labor
African Americans, 29-34; and agriculture, 145; on American Bandstand, 49;
  athletes, 862; and basketball, 32, 99; and Brown v. Board of Education, 134-136;
  and Civil Rights movement, 194-200; demographics, 262; in films, 346; Golden, Harry, on, 388;
  and Harlem Globetrotters, 410; incomes, 474; and interracial marriage laws, 494-495; and
  Invisible Man, 501-503; and Ku Klux Klan, 546-547; and liberalism, 566; and military, 252-253;
  music, 646, 1056, 1067; and Newport Jazz Festival, 679; playwrights, 921; and racial
  discrimination, 758-760; and rock and roll, 793-800; and school desegregation, 816-819;
  and Sullivan, Ed, 880; on television, 347; and tennis, 915; and unemployment, 950;
  and urbanization, 264; and White Citizens' Councils, 996-997
African Queen, The, 1017
Afterburner, 1104
Agee, James, 576, 1054
Agribusiness, 1104
Agricultural Act of 1949, 39, 354
Agricultural Act of 1954, 1041
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, 39, 1041
Agriculture, 126-127; and United Fruit Company, 960-961; and U.S. legislation, 1041;
  and water pollution, 993
Agriculture, Canadian, 34-36
Agriculture, U.S., 36-40, 144; and bracero program, 126-127; farm incomes, 476;
  farm subsidies, 328-329; and Food for Peace, 353-354; Soil Bank Act, 851-852, 1043
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 475
Ailey, Alvin, Jr., 40-41
Ain, Gregory, 60
Air Commerce Act of 1926, 337
Air Force, U.S.; aircraft, 43, 86-87; and Central Intelligence Agency, 182; creation
  of, 1040; and Davis, Benjamin O., Jr., 252-253; desegregation of, 253; and DEW line, 498;
  and espionage, 947-948; and medical research, 615; and military conscription, 625-627;
  and Royal Canadian Air Force, 696; and space exploration, 619, 657, 856
Air Force Academy, U.S., 964-965
Air Force Organization Act of 1951, 1040
Air pollution, 42-43
Air Pollution Control Act of 1955, 42, 415, 1042
Air transportation, 144
Aircraft; Avro Arrow, 84-85, 159, 271, 306, 362, 500, 810; B-52 bomber, 43-44,
  86-87, 627, 681; Boeing 707, 43-45, 117; design, 43-45; Douglas DC-8, 44;
  Grand Canyon airliner collision, 393-394; inventions, 500; U-2 spy planes, 947-948
Alabama, University of, 295, 546
Alaska; and DEW Line, 267; seismic activity, 665; statehood, 45-47, 411, 1044
Alaska Statehood Bill, 1044
Albania, 991
Albert, Carl, 232
Alberta; agriculture, 34; education in, 288; income levels, 472; oil industry, 139, 259, 466
Alberts v. California (1957), 176, 804, 886
Albizu Campos, Pedro, 753
Albright, Tenley, 706
Aldrich, Larry, 330
Aldrich, Robert, 349, 986, 1020-1021
Alemán Valdes, Miguel, 620
Alexander, Ronald, 921
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 350
Algren, Nelson, 575, 1055
Alien Land Laws, California, 151-152
Alka-Seltzer, 21
All About Eve, 5, 1017; Academy Awards, 1026
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 96, 863
All That Heaven Allows, 349
All the Way Home (Mosel), 576
Allard, Jean, 360
Allegheny Reservoir Project, 663
Allegretti, Cosmo, 169
Allen, Rex, 1056
Allen, Steve, 506, 564, 796, 901, 909, 930
Allison, Fran, 547, 898
Alter, Hobie, 889
Alvin and the Chipmunks, 1065
AMA. See American Medical Association
Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), 534, 610
Amazing Colossal Man, The, 348
Amazing Stories, 755
Ameche, Alan, 356-357, 865
American Association of Advertising Agencies, 24
American Bandstand, 47-49, 251, 325, 347, 651, 798, 899, 1059
American Bar Association (ABA), 340
American Book Publishing Council, 176
American Bowling Congress (ABC), 125
American Cancer Society, 167, 847
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 104, 176, 347, 886; and censorship, 178
American Communications Association v. Douds (1950), 884, 1046
American Dream, 49-50; and Dean, James, 257; and Miss America pageants, 635
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 146, 956; and Canada, 161; and Hoffa, Jimmy, 427;
  and Meany, George, 613-614; merger with CIO, 28-29; and steelworkers strike, 870;
  and Teamsters Union, 893-894
American Football League (AFL), 356, 862
American Guerrilla in the Philippines, 986
American Heritage Foundation, 765
American Hockey League (AHL), 426
American in Paris, An, 1017; Academy Awards, 1026
American Legion, 176, 977, 978
American Medical Association (AMA), 416, 936; and birth control, 114, 115
American-Mexican Treaty Act of 1950, 1039
American Motors, 372
American Negro Theatre, 106, 738
American Opinion, 516
American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP), 645
American States Rights Association, 546
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), 49, 147, 219; and transistors, 933-934
Ames Brothers, the, 1056
Amos and Andy, 50-52; (radio), 653, 762, 900
Amos and Andy (TV), 50-52
Anastasia, 1021
Anatomy of a Murder, 347
And God Created Woman, 90, 1022
Anderson, Jack, 726
Anderson, Leroy, 1056
Anderson, Marian, 880
Anderson, Michael, 65-66
Anderson, Robert, 920
Andrea Doria, 52-53, 518
Andrews, Julie, 132, 653-654
Andrews Sisters, 1056
Andy Panda, 211
Angelis, Peter de, 1060
Angelucci, Orfeo, 353
Anka, Paul, 651, 1056
Annenberg, Walter H., 944
Annie Oakley, 898
Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951, 1040
Anouilh, Jean, 921
Antarctic Treaty of 1959, 53-55, 824; and disarmament movement, 274
Antarctica, 487, 820, 823; bases in, 487; treaty of 1959, 53-55; weather stations in, 488
Antibiotics, 614
ANZUS treaty, 283, 935
Apache, 349, 1020
Aparicio, Luis, 558
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The (Richler), 571
April Love, 123
Arbenz, Jacobo, 181, 400, 960
Arcaro, Eddie, 861
Archaeology, 55-57; and Kon-Tiki, 534
Architecture, 57-62; geodesic dome, 377; Guggenheim Museum, 402-403; synagogues, 783
Arends, Leslie, 232
Argentina, 54
Arizin, Paul, 99
Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952, 1040
Armour, Richard, 62-63
Armstrong, Louis, 510, 733, 880, 1015-1016; and Fitzgerald, Ella, 351; and Storyville, 679
Army, U.S.; alleged espionage within, 205; and Antarctica, 54; and Bradley, Omar,
  127-128; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 301; in film, 369; and Institute of Pacific
  Relations, 484; integration of, 936; and McCarthy, Joseph, 63-65, 223; and Marshall,
  George C., 608; and military conscription, 625-627; and The Phil Silvers Show, 840;
  and Presley, Elvis, 407, 749; and Ridgway, Matthew B., 788-789; and space exploration, 76, 856, 867
Army-McCarthy hearings, 63-65, 222, 232, 595; and DuMont network, 285
Arnaz, Desi, 229, 461-463, 557, 906, 1020; music of, 509
Arnaz, Desi, Jr., 945
Arness, James, 404-405, 912, 924
Arnold, Eddy, 1056
Arnold, Jack, 244
Arnow, Harriette, 575
Around the World in Eighty Days, 9, 65-66, 345, 396, 1021; Academy Awards, 1027
Art; Abstract expressionism, 1-4, 66, 229; Famous Artists School, 327-328; Getty
  Museum, 379; Guggenheim Museum, 402-403; and home furnishings, 434; movements, 66-68;
  New York School, 1, 66, 533; paint-by-numbers movement, 717-718; Painters Eleven, 718-719
Art Linkletter's House Party, 455
Art Students League (ASL), 2, 742
Arthritis, 615
Arthur, Jean, 728, 1020
Arts and Architecture, 60
As the World Turns, 910
ASCAP. See American Society of Composers and Publishers
Aserinsky, Eugene, 767
Asian Americans, 68-73; and California's Alien Land Laws, 151-152; and China, 187;
  demographics of, 263; in Hawaii, 411; and immigration, 467; and racial discrimination, 758
Asian flu epidemic, 73-74
Asimov, Isaac, 579
ASL. See Art Students League
Asphalt Jungle, The, 349
Association of Canadian Advertisers (ACA), 23
Assumption College, 668
Astaire, Fred, 348, 1019; Emmy Awards, 1038
Astronomy, 74-77; and International Geophysical Year, 487-488; and
  space race, 856-859; Van Allen radiation belts, 974-976; and Velikovsky, Immanuel, 976-977
AT&T. See American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Atanasoff, John, 319
Atkins, Chet, 649, 1056
Atlas, Charles, 534
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 77, 573, 1052
Atomic bomb, 78-79; and bomb shelters, 118-120; and civil defense, 159, 191-193;
  and disarmament movement, 273-274; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 301; and ENIAC computer, 319;
  fallout, 1105; in film, 707-708; and genetics, 374; and Japan, 79; and Korean War, 301;
  and On the Beach, 710-712; and Pauling, Linus, 721; and Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 802-804;
  in science fiction, 256; and Seaborg, Glenn, 828; and Soviet Union, 458
Atomic Energy Act of 1946, 80
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 79-80, 232, 1041
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 80, 442, 657, 711, 722, 829, 914, 1041
Atomic Energy Damages Act of 1957, 1044
Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., 80-81
Atomic Weapons Rewards Act of 1955, 1042
Atoms for Peace, 80, 273, 815
Attack, 986
Attlee, Clement, 539
Auden, W. H., 102, 736, 875
Auerbach, Red, 99
Aunt Jemima, 21
Auntie Mame (Lawrence and Lee), 921, 1032
Australia; Aboriginal toys, 323; and Antarctica, 54; Graham, Billy, in, 393; and
  hula hoops, 454; Olympic Games of 1956, 704-707; and Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 852;
  and Suez Crisis, 154; and Tripartite Security Treaty, 935
Auto racing, 1073
Automobile models; Buick, 82, 372; Cadillac, 81, 83, 372; Chevrolet, 372; Chevrolet
  Corvair, 372; Chevrolet Corvette, 184-185, 358; Chrysler, 82; DeSoto, 81; Edsel, 83, 286-288;
  Ford Thunderbird, 82, 184, 358-359; Henry J, 81, 144; Hudson, 81; Nash, 81; Oldsmobile, 82, 372;
  Packard, 81; Plymouth, 82; Pontiac, 372; Studebaker, 81; Volkswagen, 83, 373, 982-983
Automobiles, 81-84; and air pollution, 42; assembly of, 372; in Canada, 932;
  and Chrysler autoworkers strike, 189-190; drag racing, 1105; and drive-in churches, 779;
  and drive-in theaters, 281-283, 325; and economy, 143; and fads, 325; and fast-food
  restaurants, 333-335, 598-599; and General Motors, 371-373; and highway system, 495-497;
  inventions, 500; and motels, 430, 640-642; and natural resources, 672, 674; quality of, 495;
  and radios, 646, 760, 764; and recession, 774; sales of, 25-26, 39; slang terms, 1104-1105, 1107;
  and suburbanization, 228, 675, 1016; tail fins, 81, 83, 325, 477; and tungsten carbide, 268;
  and unions, 956; and urbanization, 971; and youth culture, 347, 835, 1016
Automotive Information Disclosure Act of 1958, 83
Autry, Gene, 585, 760, 762, 911-912, 1056; and comic books, 210
Avalon, Frankie, 347, 1056
Avery, Phyllis, 385
Avro Arrow, 84-85, 159, 271, 362, 500, 810; and elections, 306
Avro Canada, 84
Axelrod, George, 918, 921

B
B-52 bomber, 43-44, 86-87, 500, 627, 681
B-58 Hustler, 45
Babcock, Harold, 74
Babcock, Horace, 74
Baby boom, 87-88; and consumerism, 25; demographics of, 261; economic impact, 670;
  and economy, 142; and education, 292; and fast-food restaurants, 599; and Jewish
  Americans, 514; and surfing, 890; and urbanization, 970; and women, 1003
Baby Doll, 347, 520
Bacall, Lauren, 349, 762
Back-Breaking Leaf, The, 343
Backus, John W., 367
Bad and the Beautiful, The, 1018; Academy Awards, 1026
Bad Seed, The (Campbell), 579
Baez, Joan, 531
Baghdad Pact, 503-504
Bairstow, David, 342
Baker, Carol, 520
Baker, Ella Jo, 854
Baker, LaVern, 1056
Bakery Workers Union, 29, 958
Baldwin, James, 574
Baldwin, Ruth Standish, 195
Balenciaga, Cristobal, 330
Ball, Lucille, 229, 461-463, 557, 905-906, 1003, 1020; Emmy Awards, 1036-1037;
  modeling of, 323; pregnancy of, 115, 945
Ballard, Hank, 647, 1056
Ballet, 41, 557, 875; and Greco, José, 396; Moiseyev Dance Company, 880; and
  Stravinsky, Igor, 876
Balsam, Martin, 1023
Band Wagon, The, 348, 1019
Banducci, Enrico, 813
Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, 1043
Banking; in Canada, 36, 141, 158, 396, 447, 479; and computers, 224; Inter-American
  Development Bank, 554, 713; and Mexico, 621; and recession of 1957-1958, 774; and U.S.
  legislation, 1039, 1043; in United States, 147, 227
Banks, Ernie, 88-89, 93, 96, 865
Bannister, Roger, 124, 131
Barbie dolls, 87, 89-90
Bardeen, John, 224, 694, 882, 933
Bardot, Brigitte, 90-91, 329, 1022
Barenblatt v. United States (1959), 1050
Barkley, Alben W., 91-92; and Truman, Harry S., 91
Barris, Chuck, 1057, 1064
Barry, Dave, 63
Barry, Gene, 989
Barrymore, Ethel, 761
Barth, John, 579
Bartkus v. Illinois (1959), 1050
Bartlett, Edward Lewis "Bob," 45, 47
Barzun, Jacques, 386-387
Baseball, 92-97, 860; and African Americans, 92; all-star games, 1068;
  Dodgers, 278-280, 862; exemption from antitrust laws, 97; expansion, 862;
  and football, 357; Giants, 278-280, 862; Larsen's perfect game, 550-551;
  and Marciano, Rocky, 606; most valuable players, 1068; Negro Leagues, 88, 93, 152, 558, 612;
  New York Yankees, 677-678, 863; reserve clause, 93, 96-97; rookies of the year, 1068;
  team moves, 865; and television, 93, 97; and women, 863; World Series champions, 1068
Baseball players; Aaron, Henry "Hank," 606; Aparicio, Luis, 558; Banks, Ernie, 88-89;
  Berra, Yogi, 111-112, 551; Campanella, Roy, 152; DiMaggio, Joe, 272-273; Gaedel, Eddie, 95;
  Gilliam, Jim, 279; Larsen, Don, 550-551; Mantle, Mickey, 605-606; Mays, Willie, 612-613;
  Mińoso, Minnie, 558; Robinson, Jackie, 791-792, 925; Snider, Duke, 848-849; Thomson, Bobby, 925
Basie, Count, 33, 285, 510, 647-648, 1056
Basilio, Carmen, 792
Basketball, 97-100; and African Americans, 32; Harlem Globetrotters, 410;
  Lakers, 862; NBA champions, 1069; NBA rookies of the year, 1069; NBA most valuable
  players, 1069; NCAA champions, 1069; NIT champions, 1069; point-shaving scandal,
  100-102; shot clock, 865; and television, 862
Basketball players; Chamberlain, Wilt, 183-184; Cousy, Bob, 243-244; Russell,
  Bill, 98; Tatum, Goose, 410
Bates, Daisy, 659
Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio, 171, 246, 552
Batman comic books, 212
Battle Act of 1951, 492
Baxter, Anne, 5, 1017, 1022
Baxter, Les, 1057
Bay, Howard, 922
Baylor, Elgin, 100
Beach culture, 888-890
Beadle, George, 373, 695, 722
Beat generation, 102-105, 1104; and art movements, 66; Burroughs, William, 138;
  Corso, Gregory, 243; Ginsberg, Allen, 383-385; Kerouac, Jack, 527; poets, 509, 737, 812;
  and religion, 784; slang terms, 1105; writers, 102-105, 229, 341-342, 527, 655, 708,
  1016; and youth culture, 1015
Beat the Clock, 901
Beatniks; and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, 839; origin of term, 102, 813, 1104;
  and youth culture, 1016
Beaumont, Hugh, 898
Beauty pageants, 331, 634-636
Beauvoir, Simone de, 830, 1052; Second Sex, The, 829-830, 1004
Beavers, Louise, 51
Be-bop, 509-510, 647, 729, 1015-1016
Beck, David, 427, 597, 893
Beckett, Samuel, 921-922
Bedtime for Bonzo, 771
Begley, Ed, 1023
Belafonte, Harry, 105-106, 368, 739; Emmy Award, 1038; notable songs, 1057
Belgium; and Antarctica, 54; and the Congo, 963
Bell, Freddie, 800
Bell, Marilyn, 107-108
Bellamy, Edward, 735
Bellow, Saul, 106-107, 574, 1055
Belmont Stakes, 861
Ben-Hur, 108-109, 1024; and Academy Awards, 11, 1028; comic book, 210;
  and Panavision, 344
Benedek, László, 999
Bennett, Tony, 647, 1057
Bennington, USS, 109
Benny, Jack, 110
Benson, Ezra Taft, 38
Bentley, Elizabeth, 222, 229
Benton, Thomas Hart, 742
Berea College v. Kentucky (1908), 816
Berg, Gertrude, 387
Berg, Patty, 390
Berger, Peter, 781
Bergman, Ingrid, 9, 1021; Emmy Award, 1038
Berle, Milton, 110
Berlin Air Lift, 202, 378
Berman v. Parker (1954), 1047
Bernbach, Bill, 18, 21
Bernstein, Leonard, 50, 111, 132, 906, 919; Peter Pan, 728; West
  Side Story
, 132, 995-996, 1030, 1032
Bernstein, Morey, 1052
Berra, Yogi, 94, 111-112, 272, 550-551, 678, 865, 872
Berry, Chuck, 49, 112-113, 368, 646, 795, 1015; notable songs, 1057
Berry, Raymond, 356
Berry, Richard, 589
Berryman, John, 572
Bertoia, Harry, 434
Best-selling books, 1051, 1053
Bestor, Arthur, 297
Betbeze, Yolanda, 635
Bethurum, Truman, 353
Better Homes and Gardens, 431, 449
Betty Crocker cookbooks, 113, 1051-1052
Beulah, 51
BIA. See Bureau of Indian Affairs
Biasone, Danny, 99
Bibb v. Navaho Freight Lines (1959), 1050
Bible, 785; Revised Standard Version, 786-787
Big bang theory, 74-75, 77
Big Bopper (J. P. Richardson), 430, 799, 974
Big Heat, The, 349
Big Show, The (radio), 761
Biggs, Julian, 342
Bikini Atoll, 118
Bikini swimwear, 330
Billboard, 531, 590, 646, 795
Billingsley, Barbara, 898
Biopic, 1104
Birth control, 113-116, 1006; pills, 114, 115, 500, 1006
Bishop, Elizabeth, 577, 1054
Bissell, Whit, 245
Black, Hugo L., 883, 887, 1010
Black, Joe, 93
Black Monday, 996
Black Mountain poets, 737
Black Orpheus, 11, 1028
Blackboard Jungle, 116-117, 251-252, 347, 350, 409, 1021; and rock and roll, 795
Blacklisting, 206, 229, 327, 575, 908; and Faulk, John Henry, 336-337; and film industry,
  176, 346; and "graylisting," 1106; and House Committee on Un-American Activities, 444;
  and Trumbo, Dalton, 940-941
Blaik, Earl H. "Red," 995
Blake, Amanda, 404, 912
Blakey, Art, 510
Blau v. United States (1950), 1046
Bloch, Felix, 695
Bloch, Robert, 755
Block, Herbert (Herblock), 421-422
Blocker, Dan, 912
Blood and Fire, 343
Blue, Monte, 842
Blue Denim, 347
BMI. See Broadcast Music Incorporated
Body Snatchers, The (Finney), 579
Boeing Company; B-52 bomber, 86-87
Boeing 707, 43, 44-45, 117, 862
Boeing Stratocruiser, 43
Bogart, Humphrey, 5, 350, 762, 1017, 1020
Boggs, Hale, 496
Boggs Act of 1951, 1040
Bold and the Brave, The, 986
Bold Ruler, 861
Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), 118, 883, 990, 1047
Bomb shelters, 118-120
Bombers. See Aircraft
Bombs. See Atomic bomb; Hydrogen bomb
Bonanza, 912
Bond, Ward, 912
Bonestell, Chesley, 266
Book publishing, 120-123; best-sellers, 1053; and Federal Bureau of
  Investigation, 340; "Inside" books, 405-406; and pulp magazines, 755
Boone, Pat, 123, 280, 645, 1053; notable songs, 1057
Boone, Richard, 912
Booth, Shirley, 921
Border Patrol, U.S., 467
Borgnine, Ernest, 9, 1021
Born Yesterday, 1017, 1026
Boston Celtics, 32, 99, 244, 864
Boucher, Anthony, 756
Bougham, Milo, 434
Boulle, Pierre, 9
Bourke-White, Margaret, 567
Bowden, Don, 124
Bowles, Chester, 124-125
Bowles, Paul, 579
Bowling, 125-126
Boxers; Basilio, Carmen, 792; Charles, Ezzard, 607, 984; Cockell, Don, 607; Johansson,
  Ingemar, 721; LaMotta, Jake, 792; LaStarza, Roland, 607; Louis, Joe, 606, 984; Marciano,
  Rocky, 606-607, 984; Moore, Archie, 607; Olson, Carl "Bobo," 792; Patterson, Floyd, 721;
  Robinson, Sugar Ray, 792-793; Torres, José Luis "Chegüi," 558; Turpin, Randy, 792;
  Walcott, Jersey Joe, 607, 984
Boxing, 861; and African Americans, 33; heavyweight champions, 1073
Boyd, Stephen, 108, 345, 1024
Boyd, William, 898, 911
Bozo the Clown, 899
Bracero program, 126-127, 555, 620; and Operation Wetback, 709
Bradbury, Ray, 444, 579, 755; Fahrenheit 451, 326-327, 733
Bradley, Mamie, 929
Bradley, Omar, 127-128; and Truman, Harry S., 127
Brady, Tom, 996
Brainstorming, 1104
Brainwashing, 1104
Branca, Ralph, 925
Branch, William, 921
Brand, Max, 754
Brando, Marlon, 8, 13, 106, 128-129, 251, 349, 519, 1019; and Academy Awards, 5;
  and Actors Studio, 13, 919, 921; film debut, 986; and Kazan, Elia, 128; and method
  acting, 13; On the Waterfront, 708-709, 1020; Sayonara, 1022; Streetcar Named
  Desire, A
, 5, 129, 876-877, 1018; Wild One, The, 643, 999-1000, 1020
Brannum, Hugh, 169
Brattain, Walter, 224, 694, 933
Braun, Wernher von, 76, 321, 655-656, 856
Brave One, The, 941
Brazzi, Rossano, 346, 1024
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Capote), 573
Breast cancer, 166
Brennan, William J., 883, 887, 990
Brewer, Teresa, 1057
Brezhnev, Leonid, 692
Bridge (game), 391-392
Bridge on the River Kwai, The, 346, 987, 1022; Academy Awards, 1028
Bridges, Styles, 232
Bridges at Toko-Ri, The, 986, 1027
Bridgman, Percy, 268
Brinkmanship, 129-130, 187, 1104; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 301
Brink's robbery, 130
British Columbia; agriculture, 34; and Canadian regionalism, 164; demographics of, 259;
  education in, 288; immigration, 465; income levels, 473; labor unions, 953; lumber
  industry, 139; unemployment, 949
British Commonwealth, 154; and Suez Crisis, 153
British Empire Games, 130-131
Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), 645
Broadway musicals, 132-133, 1029, 1033; on film, 348; and jazz, 919; Rodgers and
  Hammerstein, 801-802, 919, 1029-1030, 1033
Broken Arrow, 349, 1017
Brooklyn Dodgers, 550-551; championships, 94; move to California, 92, 278-280, 862;
  and New York Giants, 862, 925; and New York Yankees, 678; and Robinson, Jackie, 88, 152,
  791-792; and Snider, Duke, 848-849; and Stengel, Casey, 872; World Series, 1068
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 573, 1054
Brooks, Mel, 150
Brooks, Richard, 116-117, 986, 1021, 1023
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 196
Broun, Heywood, 783, 837
Brown, Charles, 318
Brown, Jim, 133-134, 355, 1070
Brown, Lloyd, 574
Brown, Norman O., 229
Brown, Ruth, 1057
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 31, 118, 134-136, 196, 294-295, 299, 302, 581,
  759, 816, 883, 982, 990, 1047; and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 658;
  and Southern Manifesto, 817, 855-856; and White Citizens' Councils, 996;
  and women's rights, 1006
Brown v. Board of Education II (1955), 1048
Browns, the, 1057
Brubeck, Dave, 136-137, 509, 648, 809, 813
Bruce, Lenny, 813
Brundage, Avery, 706
Brynner, Yul, 681, 802, 1021-1022
Bubble chamber, 1104
Buckley, William F., Jr., 240, 385-386
Buddy Deane Show, The, 251
Buell, Marge Henderson, 211
Bugs Bunny, 211
Buhl, Bob, 96
Buick sports car, 82
Bulganin, Nikolai, 375
Bulgaria, 991
Bunche, Ralph, 137-138, 695-696
Burdette, Lew, 96
Burdick, Eugene, 948
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), 661
Burger King, 334
Burgess, Bobby, 625
Burnett, Leo, 18, 21
Burney, Leroy E., 847
Burning Bright (Steinbeck), 871
Burns, John A., 411
Burr, Raymond, 727-728, 1020; Emmy Award, 1038
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 754
Burroughs, William, 102, 138, 229, 579, 1016; and Ginsberg, Allen, 384; and
  Kerouac, Jack, 655; Naked Lunch, 103, 655
Burstyn, Ellen, 13
Burstyn v. Wilson (1952), 885, 1047
Burton, Harold, 883, 887
Burton, Richard, 8, 893, 1019
Burtt, Robert Morris, 842
Business; in Canada, 138-142; and Small Business Administration, 842-844;
  in United States, 142-149
Button, Dick, 702
Buttons, Red, 1023
Butts, Alfred Mosher, 826
Buxton, Frank, 899
Bwana Devil, 325, 344, 926
Byrd, Harry, 294, 817

C
Cadillacs, the, 1057
Caen, Herb, 102, 813
Caesar, Sid, 150-151, 602, 761; Emmy Awards, 1036-1037
Cage, John, 768
Cagney, James, 1021
Caine Mutiny, The (Wouk), 1008, 1020, 1051
Caldwell, Taylor, 1052-1053
California, 871; agriculture, 673-674; and air pollution, 42; Alien Land Laws, 71,
  151-152; antigay laws, 437; archaeology in, 56; Asian Americans in, 68, 467;
  baseball teams, 278-280; beach culture, 888-890; Chinese Theater, 998; Disneyland,
  274-276, 675; Khrushchev, Nikita, in, 528-529; Latinos in, 467, 558-559, 735; Los Angeles
  freeways, 970; loyalty oaths, 590; motorcycle gangs, 643; offshore oil leases, 928; San Francisco
  Renaissance, 812-814; state university, 590
Callaghan, Morley, 570
Camino Real (Williams), 520, 1000
Campanella, Roy, 93, 96, 152, 278
Campbell, John W., Jr., 924
Campbell, K. L., 360
Campbell, Milt, 863
Campbell, William, 579
Campbell Kids, 21
Canada; and China, 187; and Cold War, 204; and continentalism, 241-242; and Cuba, 206;
  and Great Britain, 153-156, 270, 317-318, 937; and Israel, 505; and Korean War, 360-361;
  as a "middle power," 158-160, 360; minorities in, 478-479, 513, 631-634;
  and North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 158, 204, 698; regionalism, 162-165;
  and United Nations, 158; and United States, 141, 154, 156-158, 159, 241-242, 359-363,
  686-687, 696-697, 810-812; U.S. investments in, 156-158
Canada Council for the Encouragement of the Arts, Letters, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 571
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), 19, 140, 160-161, 215; and
  education, 291, 601; and hockey, 426; and television, 216, 902-904
Canadian Code of Advertising Standards, 22
Canadian Football League, 903; champions, 1070
Canadian Labour Congress, 161-162
Canadian Legion, 978
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children, 1055
Cancel Miranda, Rafael, 751-752
Cancer, 165-168, 414; cobalt treatment, 166; and smoking, 615, 846
Cannon, Freddie, 1057
Cantinflas, 65
Capote, Truman, 573
Capp, Al, 168-169
Capri pants, 331
Captain America comic books, 212
Captain Kangaroo, 169, 899, 909; comic book version 210; and Silly Putty, 839
Captain Video, 169-170
Cardona, José, 247
Carlson, Chester F., 499
Carlson, Richard, 245, 460
Carmen Jones, 8
Carnegie, Dale, 170-171
Carney, Art, 438-439; Emmy Awards, 1036-1038
Caron, Leslie, 346, 1018, 1023
Carr, Lucien, 384
Carradine, John, 66
Carrillo, Leo, 190
Carson, Johnny, 930
Carson, Rachel, 579, 675, 717, 1055; Sea Around Us, The, 827-828, 1051
Carter, Ace, 547
Carter, Jack, 285
Carter, Robert, 658
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 567
Cash, Johnny, 646, 794, 1057
Cashier, The (Roy), 570
Casper, Billy, 1072
Casper the Friendly Ghost comic books, 211
Cassady, Neal, 103, 1016; and Ginsberg, Allen, 384; and Kerouac, Jack, 527
Cassyd, Syd, 318
Castro, Fidel, 171-172, 245-248, 271, 365, 552, 554, 556, 623, 630, 713; in
  Mexico, 246, 960; in Washington, D.C., 171
Cat in the Hat, The (Dr. Seuss), 833
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (film), 1023
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams), 172-173, 573, 892, 920, 999, 1000,
  1031; and sexuality, 346
Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger), 26, 173-174, 576
Catholic War Veterans, 978
Catholic Worker movement, 784
CBC. See Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Celler, Emanuel, 97, 174, 1006
Celler-Kefauver Act of 1950, 147, 174-175, 1039
Censorship, 175-180, 532; and Beat generation, 104, 177, 341, 383-385; and
  Catcher in the Rye, The, 174; and comic books, 176, 212; and Fahrenheit 451, 326-327;
  and films, 346, 605, 885; and Lady Chatterley's Lover, 548-549; and Lolita, 584, 1053;
  and MAD magazine, 602; and Pogo, 738; and Presley, Elvis, 798; and
  Roth v. United States, 804-805; and The Second Sex, 829; and Sunset
  Boulevard
, 882; and Supreme Court, U.S., 1048, 1050; and television, 832
CENTO. See Central Treaty Organization
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 180-183; and Cuba, 247; and Guatemala, 400-402,
  553; and Radio Free Europe, 765; and Taiwan, 181; and Truman, Harry S., 180-181;
  and U-2 spy planes, 947-948; and United States Information Agency, 966; and Vietnam, 980
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), 503
Cerf, Bennett, 19, 120, 901
Chadwick, Florence, 107
Chamberlain, Owen, 695
Chamberlain, Wilt, 99, 183-184, 863; and Harlem Globetrotters, 410
Chambers, Whittaker, 12, 204, 222, 229, 1051
Champs, the, 1057
Chandler, Happy, 93
Chandler, Raymond, 755
Chanel, Coco, 330, 719
Channing, Carol, 922
Chapman, Sydney, 74
Chargaff, Erwin, 276
Charisse, Cyd, 1019
Charles, Ezzard, 607, 984, 1073
Charles, Ray, 679, 796, 1058
Checker, Chubby, 49, 1015
"Checkers" speech (Nixon), 311, 689, 691-692, 909
Cheever, John, 575, 1055
Chemotherapy, 166
Chertok, Jack, 585-586
Chess Records, 646, 794, 1057
Chevalier, Maurice, 1023
Chevrolet Corvette, 184-185; and Ford Thunderbird, 184, 358
Cheyenne, 912
Chiang Kai-shek, 70, 185-186, 202; and China, 187; and Formosa Resolution, 366;
  and Mao Zedong, 185
Chiang Kai-shek, Madame, 185, 202
Children's books; Armour, Richard, 63; Seuss, Dr., 832-833
Children's television, 897-899; and Kukla, Fran and Ollie, 547
Childress, Alice, 921
Chile, 54
China, 186-189; and Canada, 187; and Central Intelligence Agency, 181-182;
  and Chiang Kai-shek, 185, 187; and Cold War, 202; emigrants to United States, 68-73;
  and Japan, 189; and Soviet Union, 935; and Taiwan, 187, 543, 961; and United Nations, 961;
  and United States, 12, 79, 185-189, 202, 307, 363-364, 366-367, 536, 593, 853
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 68
Ching, Cyrus, 286
Chiquita banana, 960
Chlorpromazine, 616, 931-932
Chordettes, the, 1058
Chords, the, 1058
Christianity Today, 393
Chrysler, 81, 372
Chrysler autoworkers strike, 189-190
Churchill, Randolph, 901
Churchill, Winston S., 202, 270, 283, 567, 660, 680-681, 696, 878, 901, 937
CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency
Cigarette advertisements, 846
Cinderella, 1017
CinemaScope, 344, 347, 999; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 376
CIO. See Congress of Industrial Organizations
Circuses, 790, 898
Cisco Kid, The, 190-191
Cisneros v. Corpus Christi ISD (1971), 422
Cities. See Urbanization
Citizens' Councils of America, 997
City Lights, 341
City Lights Bookstore, 104, 341, 384, 813, 1016
City of Gold, 343
Civil defense programs, 159, 191-193; air-raid drills, 192; and U.S. legislation, 1039
Civil rights, U.S. Commission on, 214-215
Civil Rights Act of 1866, 194
Civil Rights Act of 1871, 194
Civil Rights Act of 1875, 194
Civil Rights Act of 1957, 32, 193-194, 198-199, 239, 297, 302, 311, 759, 1044;
  and Commission on Civil Rights, 214-215; and Federal Bureau of Investigation, 339;
  and Rayburn, Sam, 769; and Thurmond, Strom, 234
Civil Rights Act of 1960, 215
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 194, 818
Civil Rights Commission, 32, 759
Civil Rights movement, 194-200; and Brown v. Board of Education, 134-136;
  and Congress of Racial Equality, 235-236; and Golden, Harry, 388; and Little Rock school
  desegregation crisis, 581-583, 818; and Montgomery bus boycott, 530, 638-639; and National
  Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 658-659; and Parks, Rosa, 720-721;
  and racial discrimination, 758-759, 760; and school desegregation, 816-819; sit-ins, 195;
  and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 854-855; and Southern Manifesto, 855-856;
  and Supreme Court, U.S., 886; women in, 1006
Civil Service Commission, U.S., 1041
Clamer, Albert, 785
Clarabell the clown, 898
Clark, Dick, 47-48, 251-252, 798, 899; and payola, 48
Clark, Tom, 135, 340, 883, 885, 887
Clarke, Arthur C., 121
Classics Illustrated comic books, 210-211
Clemente, Roberto, 96, 865
Cliburn, Van, 200-201
Clift, Montgomery, 13, 129, 201, 349, 351, 986, 1018-1019
Cline, Patsy, 649
Clooney, Rosemary, 880, 1058
Clovers, the, 1058
Clurman, Harold, 922
Coal industry, 146, 670-671; and water pollution, 993
Coasters, the, 797, 1058
Coates, Phyllis, 16
Cobb, Lee J., 8, 708, 921, 1023
COBOL, 367, 498, 967
Coca, Imogene, 150
Cochran, Eddie, 1058
Cockell, Don, 607
Cocoanut Grove, 105
Cogswell, Fred, 571
Cohn, Roy M., 63-65, 595, 803
COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program), 340
Cold War, 201-208; and bomb shelters, 118-120; and brinkmanship, 129-130;
  and Canada, 158-160, 204, 270; and Castro, Fidel, 171-172; and Central Intelligence
  Agency, 180-183; and China, 186-189; and civil defense, 191-193; and Cliburn, Van, 200;
  and computer research, 485; and culture of conformity, 207, 229; and DEW Line, 267-268, 361;
  and disarmament movement, 273-274; and Dulles, John Foster, 284; and Egypt, 877;
  and Eisenhower Doctrine, 303; and Espionage and Sabotage Act, 320-321; and fads, 325;
  and film industry, 987; and Geneva Summit Conference, 374-376; and Germany, 377-379;
  and House Committee on Un-American Activities, 444-446; and Hungarian revolt, 456-458;
  and I Led Three Lives, 460; and Internal Security Act, 484-485; and jazz, 512;
  and "kitchen debate," 692-693; and liberalism, 566; and loyalty oaths, 590-591;
  and military-industrial complex, 627-628; and North American Aerospace Defense Command, 696-697;
  and North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 697-699; nuclear deterrence, 739-740; and
  Olympic Games, 704-707; and Radio Free Europe, 765; and religion, 784; and science, 821;
  and space race, 856-859; and Suez Crisis, 79, 273, 561; and television Westerns, 911;
  and Tripartite Security Treaty, 935; and Truman Doctrine, 939-940; and U-2 spy planes, 947-948;
  and U.S. trade, 492; and United States Information Agency, 965-966; and Warsaw Pact, 991-993;
  and women's roles, 1004
Cole, Lester, 444
Cole, Nat King, 33, 208-209, 495, 646; notable songs, 1058
Colean, Miles, 451
Coleman, Jerry, 94
Colgate Comedy Hour, The, 609
Collazo, Oscar, 938-939
Collier, John, 661
Collins, Al "Jazzbo," 930
Collins, Dorothy, 1012
Collins, Tommy, 1058
Columbia University, 499; and Beat generation, 102, 384, 527; and DNA research, 276;
  and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 301, 304; and Great Books movement, 394; and Mills, C. Wright, 629
Come Back, Little Sheba (film), 1018
Come Back, Little Sheba (Inge), 573, 920, 1029
Comic books, 176, 209-214; censorship of, 176
Comic strips; Capp, Al, 168-169; L'il Abner, 168-169; Peanuts, 724-725; Pogo, 738
Comics Magazine Association of America, 213
Comintern. See Communist International
Commission on Civil Rights, U.S., 214-215, 1044
Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, 493
Committee for a Free Europe, 765
Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes in New York, 196
Communications; and advertising, 17-24; in Canada, 215-217, 682-684; and McLuhan,
  Marshall, 601-602; newspapers, 682-684; radio, 760-764; Radio Free Europe, 765;
  telephones, 216, 894-897; in United States, 217-221
Communism; in China, 185; and conservatism, 238; and Cuban Revolution, 245-248; and
  culture of conformity, 229; and film industry, 5; and House Committee on Un-American
  Activities, 205, 444-446; and I Led Three Lives, 460; and Internal Security
  Act, 484-485; and Red Monday, 776-777; and religion, 784; and Rosenberg, Julius and
  Ethel, 802-804; and Supreme Court, U.S., 1046, 1047, 1048-1050; and unions, 29, 146, 957;
  and Vietnam, 979-981; and Warsaw Pact, 991-993
Communist Control Act of 1954, 1041
Communist International (Comintern), 222
Communist Party of the U.S.A., 63, 221-223, 265, 776; and homosexuality, 437;
  and Hoover, J. Edgar, 441; and U.S. legislation, 1041
Como, Perry, 681, 1058; Emmy Awards, 1036, 1038
Computers, 224-225, 498, 824; COBOL programming language, 367, 498, 967; ENIAC, 224,
  319-320, 966; FORTRAN programming language, 224, 367, 485, 824, 967; and International Business
  Machines Corporation, 485-486; and telephones, 219; terminology, 1104-1105; and transistors, 933;
  UNIVAC, 224, 485, 498, 966-967
Comstock Law of 1873, 114
Conant, James B., 297, 378
Concentration, 902
Confidential, 225-226
Conformity; and Cold War, 207; and youth culture, 1014
Conformity, culture of, 226-230; and The Catcher in the Rye, 173-174; and
  House Committee on Un-American Activities, 444; and The Organization Man, 712-713;
  and paint-by-numbers movement, 324
Congo crisis, 963
Congress, U.S., 230-235; and Alaska statehood, 45-47; and baseball, 97; and
  elections, 306-308, 311, 314; House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 444-446;
  Kefauver, Estes, 520-522; Kefauver Committee, 522-523, 715; legislation, 1039, 1045; and
  Native Americans, 662; and Pledge of Allegiance, 734-735; plenary power of, 664; and
  Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 745-747; Puerto Rican nationalist attack on, 751-752; and
  Rayburn, Sam, 768-769; Senate Banking Committee, 774; Senate Rackets Investigating
  Committee, 428, 894; and Small Business Administration, 842-844; and Southern Manifesto, 855-856;
  state of the union address, 233; and Teamsters Union, 893
Congress for Cultural Freedom, 180
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 28, 146, 956; merger with AFL, 28-29;
  and steelworkers strike, 870
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 31, 199, 235-236
Connolly, Harold, 237
Connolly, Maureen, 236-237, 865, 916; major titles, 1071
Connolly, Olga, 237-238
Connors, Chuck, 912
Conservatism; in Canadian politics, 153, 163, 305, 490; John Birch Society, 515-516; and
  Nixon, Richard M., 689-691; and Reagan, Ronald, 770-772; and Smith, Margaret Chase, 844-845;
  and Supreme Court, U.S., 888; and Twenty-second Amendment, 945-946; in U.S. politics, 238-240,
  307, 309,; and veterans organizations, 977; vs. liberalism, 566
Conservative Mind, The (Kirk), 238
Considine, Tim, 625
Constitution, U.S.; Twenty-second Amendment, 945-946
Consumerism, 24-27, 238, 264, 368, 476, 603, 836, 907; and home appliances, 431-433;
  Packard, Vance, on, 717; parodying of, 602; and sex education, 835
Continental League, 92
Continentalism, 241-242; and Canada, 361
Cooke, Sam, 242-243, 797; notable songs, 1058
Coonskin caps, 255, 324, 521
Cooper, Ashley, 1071
Cooper, Chuck, 32, 99
Cooper, Gary, 7, 523, 1018
Cooper, Leon, 882
Cooper v. Aaron (1958), 884, 1049
Corcoran, Fred, 389
Cordero, Figueroa, 752
CORE. See Congress of Racial Equality
Corey, Orlin, 922
Cornell, Don, 1058
Correll, Charles, 51
Corso, Gregory, 243; and Ginsberg, Allen, 243
Corvette. See Chevrolet Corvette
Cosby, Bill, 813
Costain, Thomas B., 572, 1051-1052
Costello, Frank, 714-715
Coughlin, Charles, 421
Council of Conservative Citizens, 997
Counter Intelligence Program. See COINTELPRO
Country Girl, The, 523; Academy Awards, 1027
Country Girl, The (Odets), 920, 1029
Country-western music, 648
Cournand, André F., 694, 695
Court cases. See Supreme Court cases
Cousy, Bob, 99, 243-244, 864
Coward, Noel, 1024
Cowles, Gardner A., Jr., 588-589
Cowley, Malcolm, 578
Cozzens, James Gould, 573, 1052
Craft, Robert, 875
Cranbrook Academy of Art, 434
Crawford, Cheryl, 12-13, 921
Crawford, Joan, 1020
Crawford, Johnny, 912
Creature from the Black Lagoon, 244-245, 927, 1020
Creature Walks Among Us, The, 245
Credit, 83, 431, 969; and agriculture, 36; and discrimination, 197; and foreign aid, 621;
  and home ownership, 143, 476, 775
Credit cards, 26, 1082
Creel, George, 22
Creel Committee, 965
Creeley, Robert, 737
Crests, the, 1059
Crew Cuts, the, 1059
Crick, Francis, 276, 373, 414, 788, 994
Crickets, the, 430-431, 797, 1062
Crime; Brink's robbery, 130; and Kefauver Committee, 522-523; organized, 714-716;
  and U.S. legislation, 1039
Criswell, 1007
Crocker, Betty. See Betty Crocker cookbooks
Crockett, Davy, 254-255
Cronkite, Walter, 319
Crosby, Bing, 760, 762; and Hope, Bob, 443; notable songs, 1059
Crosley, J. Powell, 81
Crotty, Ron, 136
Crucible, The (Miller), 206, 575, 628, 920, 1030
Cruel and unusual punishment, 935-936
Crusade for Freedom, 765
Cuba; and Canada, 206, 271; and Castro, Fidel, 171-172, 271; dances of, 252; and
  Organization of American States, 714; and Soviet Union, 247
Cuban Revolution, 245-248
Cukor, George, 1017, 1019-1020
Cullen, Bill, 506
Culture of conformity. See Conformity, culture of
Cummings, Bob, 275
Cunningham, Merce, 768
Currency, U.S., 470
Curtice, Harlow, 681
Curtis, Cyrus H. K., 814
Curtis, Tony, 9, 1023, 1025
Curtiss, Charles, 496
Customs Simplification Act of 1953, 1040
Customs Simplification Act of 1954, 1041
Cyclotron, 248-249, 828
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1017, 1026
Czechoslovakia; and Connolly, Olga, 237-238; and Radio Free Europe, 765; and Warsaw Pact, 991

D
Daffy Duck, 211
Daley, Charles, 471
Daly, Carroll John, 755
Daly, John, 19
Damn Yankees (Adler and Ross), 133, 250, 919
Damn Yankees (film), 1031
Damone, Vic, 1059
Dance; Ailey, Alvin, Jr., 40-41; and Broadway musicals, 132; cha-cha-cha, 1104; and
  fads, 325; Greco, José, 396; "Louie Louie," 589-590; popular, 250-252; in West Side Story, 996
Dandridge, Dorothy, 8, 33
Danny and the Juniors, 1059
Darin, Bobby, 1059
Daughters of Bilitis, 437
Davies, Robertson, 570
Davis, Benjamin O., Jr., 252-253
Davis, Bette, 5, 1017
Davis, Gail, 898
Davis, John W., 134
Davis, Miles, 106, 509, 647; and Storyville, 679
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 253-254, 841
Davy Crockett; and Kefauver, Estes, 521
Davy Crockett, 254-255, 275, 324
Day, Bobby, 1059
Day, Doris, 255-256, 1022, 1025; notable songs, 1059
Day, Dorothy, 784
Day the Earth Stood Still, The, 256-257, 348, 353, 1018
Days Before Christmas, The, 343
Dean, James, 9, 129, 257-258, 347, 381-382, 835, 871, 906; and Actors Studio, 13;
  death of, 1014; and fashions, 329; image of, 251, 323, 407, 520, 1014; Rebel
  Without a Cause
, 772-773, 1014
Dean Milk Company v. City of Madison (1951), 1046
Deane, Buddy, 252
Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway), 420
Death in the Family, A (Agee), 576
Death of a Salesman (Miller), 628, 920, 1029
Decision Before Dawn, 1018
Deer Park, The (Mailer), 575
Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1951, 1040
Defense Production Act of 1950, 480, 1039
Defiant Ones, The, 9, 346, 1023; Academy Awards, 1028
De Kooning, Willem, 3, 258-259
Dell-Vikings, 1059
DeMille, Agnes, 919
DeMille, Cecil B., 5, 345, 790, 882, 1018, 1022
Demographics, Canadian, 259-260; and immigration, 464-466
Demographics, U.S., 260-265; African Americans, 29; Asian Americans, 68-73;
  baby boom, 87-88; and computers, 966; and economy, 142; and immigration, 466-470;
  Latinos, 555-559; and urbanization, 969
Demolition derby, 1105
Deniker, Pierre, 616, 931
Denning, Richard, 245
Dennis, Eugene, 222, 265-266
Dennis, Patrick, 1052-1053
Dennis the Menace comic books, 211
Dennis v. United States (1951), 265-266, 776, 885, 981, 1046
Deoxyribonucleic acid. See DNA
Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1956, 1043
Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958, 1044
Dependants Assistance Act of 1950, 1039
Derleth, August, 755
Desmond, Paul, 136, 512
Destination Moon, 266-267, 348, 1017, 1026
DeVaux, Roland, 785
Devil Rides Outside, The (Griffin), 177
Devlin, Bernard, 342
DEW Line, 204, 241, 267-268, 361, 498, 1105
Dewey, John, 297
DeWilde, Brandon, 8
Dial M for Murder, 523, 927, 1020
Diamond synthesizing, 268-269
Diary of Anne Frank, The, 988, 1024; Academy Awards, 1028
Diddley, Bo, 269, 794, 1059
Diefenbaker, John G., 157, 270-271, 699, 809; and Avro Arrow, 84-85; and Cold
  War, 207; defense policy of, 696; election of, 164; foreign policy of, 155, 159;
  government of, 305, 362; and Israel, 505; and North American Aerospace Defense Command, 697;
  and Quebec, 165; trade policy of, 490; and Trans-Canada Highway, 932; and United States, 241
Dien Bien Phu, 63, 320, 364, 852
Dietrich, Marlene, 66, 1023
Diggs, Charles C., Jr., 271-272
Diller, Phyllis, 813
DiMaggio, Joe, 94, 272-273, 678; and Hemingway, Ernest, 420; and Monroe, Marilyn, 637
Dimension X, 762
Dion and the Belmonts, 1059
Dior, Christian, 329
Dirac, Paul, 711
Dirksen, Everett, 233, 307
Disabled American Veterans, 978
DiSalle, Michael V., 286
Disarmament movement, 273-274; and Einstein, Albert, 300; and Pauling, Linus, 721-723
Disc jockeys, 646, 762, 793, 930-931; Big Bopper (J. P. Richardson), 974; Freed, Alan, 368-369
Discovery, 899
Disney, Roy Oliver, 274
Disney, Walt, 62, 275, 625, 808, 899; and Disneyland, 274-276; Fantasia, 875;
  and Mickey Mouse Club, 625
Disneyland, 144, 254, 274-276, 496, 675; architecture of, 61; Khrushchev's visit, 528
Disneyland (television series), 324, 899
Displaced Persons Act of 1948, 70, 468
Displaced Persons Act of 1950, 468
District of Columbia Law Enforcement Act of 1953, 1040
Divorce, 835; demographics of, 263
Dixon, Willie, 646, 794
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), 276-278, 373, 994-995; and Ribonucleic acid (RNA), 787-788
Do You Trust Your Wife?, 901
D.O.A., 349
Doby, Larry, 93
Docherty, George, 735
Dodd, Jimmy, 625, 899
Dodd, Martha, 575
Dolby, Rayg, 499
Doll, Richard, 415, 616
Dolls, 89-90
Domestic Minerals Program Extension Act of 1953, 1040
Dominion Housing Act of 1935, 447
Domino, Fats, 123, 280, 347, 368, 647, 795, 798, 1065; notable songs, 1059
"Domino theory," 980
Dominoes, the, 647, 796, 1060
Donald Duck, 211
Donen, Stanley, 348, 719
Donovan, Art, 356
Don't Knock the Rock, 347
Doo-wop, 649
Dorne, Albert, 327
Dorticós Torrado, Osvaldo, 247
Dos Passos, John, 578
Dotto, 902
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 307
Douglas, James H., 965
Douglas, Kirk, 9, 110, 846, 987, 1018, 1022
Douglas, Paul, 307
Douglas, William O., 883, 887
Douglas DC-6, 43
Douglas DC-8, 44
Dow, Tony, 559, 898
Dragnet, 281; Emmy Awards, 1036; parodies of, 367
Dragnet (radio), 762
Dragstrip Girl, 347
Drifters, the, 1060
Drive-in theaters, 281-283, 324-325; and "passion pits," 1106; and sex, 835
Drugs; and soap operas, 911; and U.S. legislation, 1040, 1044
Drury, Allen, 1053
Du Bois, W. E. B., 574
Ducktail hairstyle, 323, 333; and Presley, Elvis, 407
Dulles, Allen, 180, 181, 400
Dulles, John Foster, 283-284; and brinkmanship, 129-130; and Canada, 490;
  and Central Intelligence Agency, 181; and Cold War, 187; and Egypt, 877; and Eisenhower,
  Dwight D., 283, 301; and Guatemala, 400, 960; and John Birch Society, 240; and Lodge,
  Henry Cabot, 584; and Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 852; Time "Man of the Year," 681;
  and Trop v. Dulles, 935; and Truman, Harry S., 283
DuMont, Allen B., 284-285
DuMont network, 284-285, 438; Captain Video, 169-170; football broadcasts, 355;
  Goldbergs, The, 387; Sheen, Fulton J., 836
Duncan, Robert, 737
Duplessis, Maurice, 163, 413, 633; and elections, 305
DuPont, Francis V., 496
Durocher, Leo, 94
Du Vigneaud, Vincent, 695
Dylan, Bob, 104, 531

E
Each Man's Son (MacLennan), 570
Eames, Charles, 433
Eames, Ray, 434
Earl, Harley, 81-82
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, 353
Earthquakes, 665
East of Eden, 257, 520, 871; Academy Awards, 1027
East of Eden (Steinbeck), 575, 871, 1051
Easter, Luke, 93
Eastwood, Clint, 912
Ebsen, Buddy, 255
Eckert, Presper, 224, 319, 966
Eckstine, Billy, 1060
Ecology; and Beat generation, 104, 814; and Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 827-828
Economic Stabilization Agency, 286
Economy, Canadian, 138-142; gross national product, 396-398; inflation, 479-480; and
  unemployment, 948-949; and U.S. investments, 156-158
Economy, U.S., 142-149; and demographics, 263; and farm subsidies, 328-329;
  gross national product, 398-400; and inflation, 480-481; and unemployment, 950-953
Ed Sullivan Show, The, 251, 880; Emmy Award, 1037
Eddy, Duane, 1060
Eden, Anthony, 375, 877
Edge of Night, The, 910
Edge of the City, 350
Edsel, 83, 286-288
Education; and African Americans, 30; and Brown v. Board of Education, 134-136;
  in Canada, 288-291; and Civil Rights movement, 196; and communism, 229; and
  G.I. Bill, 380-381; and God and Man at Yale, 385-386; and gross national
  product, 398; and labor, 146; and loyalty oaths, 590; and Miss America pageants, 635;
  and National Defense Education Act, 660-661; and phonics, 997-998; and release time, 777-778;
  Roman Catholic schools, 784; and school desegregation, 816-819; and sex, 833-836; and
  Sputnik, 206; in United States, 292-300, 1044; and women, 1004
Education and Freedom (Rickover), 298
Education of American Teachers, The (Conant), 298
Edwards, Ralph, 761
Egan, Jenny, 920
Egan, William, 47
Egypt, 364, 947; becomes United Arab Republic, 560; and Israel, 504; Suez Crisis, 154,
  303, 364, 704, 877-879, 962; and United States, 877
Eighth Amendment, 935-936
Einstein, Albert, 248, 300-301, 711
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 283, 301-303; and Adams, Sherman, 14; and Alaska statehood, 46-47;
  and atomic bomb, 79; "Atoms for Peace" speech, 273; on birth control, 114-115; and
  Brown v. Board of Education, 566; and Canada, 490; and Central Intelligence
  Agency, 181; and civil defense, 193; and civil rights, 215; and Cliburn, Van, 200; and
  Congress, U.S., 232; conservatism of, 239; and contract bridge, 391; and Cuban Revolution, 245-248;
  and disarmament movement, 273; and Dulles, John Foster, 283, 301; and Economic Stabilization
  Agency, 286; election campaigns, 308-314, 909; and Elizabeth II, 317-318; Emmy Award, 1037;
  and fashions, 332; and Faubus, Orval, 336; foreign policy of, 301, 363-366; foreign
  trade policy of, 492; and Geneva Summit Conference, 375; and golf, 389; and Graham,
  Billy, 393; and hairstyles, 407; on Hawaii statehood, 47; heart attack, 304-305, 414;
  and Herblock, 422; and interstate highways, 496; and Israel, 504; and John Birch
  Society, 240, 515; and Johnson, Lyndon B., 307; and Khrushchev, Nikita, 302, 363, 528;
  and Korean War, 187; and Latin America, 553; and Little Rock school desegregation
  crisis, 197, 295, 302, 582, 818; and MacArthur, Douglas, 301; and McCarthy, Joseph, 63; and
  midterm elections, 307; and "military-industrial complex," 627; and Native Americans, 662;
  and NATO, 699; and Nixon, Richard M., 301; and nuclear energy, 80; press conferences of, 747;
  and Rayburn, Sam, 769; and religion, 735; and Small Business Administration, 843; and
  space race, 302, 321, 619, 856, 867; state of the union address, 233; and steelworkers
  strike, 870; stroke, 304; and Suez Crisis, 878; and television, 909; Time
  "Man of the Year," 681; and United States Information Agency, 965; and Vietnam, 364,
  789, 852, 980; and Warren, Earl, 759, 990; and women's rights, 1006; and World Council of
  Churches convention, 1008; and You'll Never Get Rich, 840
Eisenhower, Mamie, 317, 332, 407
Eisenhower Doctrine, 233, 301, 303, 365, 503; and Lebanon, 560-562; and Suez Crisis, 301, 303
Ekberg, Anita, 346
Elections, 306-307, 308, 311; and Gallup polls, 371; and McCarthy, Joseph, 594; and
  television, 909; and Twenty-second Amendment, 945-946
Elections, Canadian, 155, 157, 159, 305-306; 1948, 305, 726; 1957, 162, 164,
  270, 305, 726, 809; 1958, 305; 1963, 271
Elections, Mexican, 620
Elections, U.S.; Midterm, 230-235, 306-308
Elections of 1948, U.S., 91, 928
Elections of 1950, U.S., 239, 306, 689-690
Elections of 1952, U.S., 239, 308-311, 363, 521, 583, 640, 689, 691-692, 766,
  874, 909, 928, 937; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 301; and Nixon, Richard M., 691;
  and Stevenson, Adlai, 309
Elections of 1954, U.S., 239, 307
Elections of 1956, U.S., 239, 311-314, 521, 689, 874; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 302;
  and Stevenson, Adlai, 312, 521
Elections of 1958, U.S., 240, 308, 526, 952
Elections of 1960, U.S., 240, 526, 690
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 818
Elion, Gertrude, 500
Eliot, T. S., 314-315, 707, 736, 921
Elizabeth I, 318
Elizabeth II, 687; and British Empire Games, 131; coronation, 217, 315-317,
  903, 985; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 318; North America trip, 317-318; and
  St. Lawrence Seaway, 812; on stamps, 744; Time "Man of the Year," 681
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 755
Ellington, Duke, 41, 285, 510, 512, 647, 1015-1016; and Storyville, 678
Ellison, Ralph, 502, 573, 1055; Invisible Man, 501-503
Elmer Fudd, 211
Emergency Ship Repair Act of 1954, 1041
Emerson, Faye, 407, 506
Emmons, Glenn L., 662
Emmy Awards, 318-319, 335, 1036, 1038; Belafonte, Harry, 106
Employment Act of 1946, 145, 148, 400
Enemy Below, The, 987, 1028
ENIAC computer, 224, 319-320, 966
Eniwetok Atoll, 458
Entenza, John, 60
Environment; and affluence, 26; and agriculture, 39, 328; and air pollution, 42-43; and
  Antarctica, 53-55, 824; and automobiles, 84; and Beat poetry, 104; and health hazards, 415;
  and International Geophysical Year, 487-488; and natural resources, 669-676; and
  nuclear fallout, 273; and Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 827-828; and Soil
  Bank Act, 851-852; and tidelands oil controversy, 927-928; water pollution, 993-994
Equal Rights Amendment, 1005
Erskine, John, 394
Ertegun, Ahmet, 646
Eskimos, 259, 288
Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954, 320-321, 1041
Euratom Cooperation Act of 1958, 1044
Evans, Dale, 913, 1051
Evans, Gil, 647
Everly Brothers, 797, 1060
Evers, Medgar, 659
Ewell, Tom, 921, 1021
Executive Order 8802, 196
Executive Order 9981, 196
Existentialism, 571; and art, 1; in film, 349, 425; on television, 907
Exner, Virgil, 82
Exodus (Uris), 972, 1053
Expatriation Act of 1954, 1041
Explorer I, 321-322, 857; and Van Allen radiation belts, 974
Ex-Servicemen's Unemployment Compensation Act of 1958, 1044

F
FAA. See Federal Aviation Administration
Fabian, 347, 1060
Fabray, Nanette, 150, 1019; Emmy Awards, 1037
Face in the Crowd, A, 520
Fadiman, Clifton, 833
Fads, 323-326; Beatniks, 102; and Cold War, 325; coonskin caps, 255; Davy
  Crockett
, 254-255, 324; drive-in theaters, 281-283; flying saucers, 352-353;
  hairstyles, 407-408; hula hoops, 323, 454-455; Mr. Potato Head, 643-644; paint-by-numbers
  movement, 717-718; Silly Putty, 324, 839; surfing, 888-890; telephone booth stuffing, 324;
  TV dinners, 944
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 326-327, 444, 733, 756
Fahrenheit 451 (film), 326
Fair Deal, 307; and African Americans, 29; and Truman, Harry S., 759, 936
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1955, 1042
Fallon, George H., 496
Families; and advertising, 24; African American, 30, 196; Asian American, 69, 126, 151;
  and automobiles, 371; and baby boom, 87-88, 261; and birth control, 113-116; and
  bomb shelters, 119; in Canada, 259; and consumerism, 25; and culture of conformity, 226-230;
  demographics of, 263; depictions in drama, 172-173, 586-587; depictions in film, 772-773, 1014;
  depictions in literature, 575, 735-736; depictions on television, 14-15, 51, 335-336, 385,
  387, 438-439, 461-463, 551-552, 559-560, 898, 907, 909-912, 924; food purchases, 38; and
  G.I. Bill, 380; and health care, 413, 417; and home appliances, 431-433; and housing, 60, 433,
  446-453, 562-564, 971; and immigration, 464, 469; incomes, 474; and interracial
  marriage laws, 494-495; Jewish, 513-514; Latino, 710; and Life magazine, 568; and
  motels, 640; and radio, 762; and recreation, 125, 275, 281, 323, 329, 905; and restaurants, 333-335,
  599; and sex education, 835; and telephones, 218; and war brides, 984-986; and women's roles, 1003
Famous Artists School, 327-328
Farewell to Arms, A; and Hudson, Rock, 454
Farlow, Tal, 510
Farm Credit Act of 1953, 1041
Farm subsidies, 328-329
Farmer, James, 235
Fashions, 329-333; A-line skirts, 1104; "crazy pants," 1105; fads, 323; furs, 331;
  hairstyles, 407-408; and Parker, Suzy, 719
Fast, Howard, 446
Fast-food restaurants, 333-335; and Kroc, Ray, 545-546
Father Knows Best, 335-336; Emmy Awards, 1037-1038; and women's roles, 1003
Father of the Bride, 1017
Faubus, Orval, 193, 196, 295, 336, 567, 581-583, 818; and Supreme Court, U.S., 1049
Faulk, John Henry, 336-337
Faulkner, William, 577-578, 1023, 1054-1055
Faure, Edgar, 375
FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCC. See Federal Communications Commission
FCDA. See Federal Civil Defense Administration
FDA. See Food and Drug Administration
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954, 1042
Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act of 1950, 1039
Federal Aviation Act of 1958, 1044
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 337-338; creation of, 1044
Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. v. National League of Professional Baseball
  Clubs, et al
. (1922), 97
Federal Boating Act of 1958, 1045
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 338-341; and Brink's robbery, 130;
  COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program), 340; and Einstein, Albert, 300; and
  Hiss, Alger, 204; and Hoover, J. Edgar, 440-442; and House Committee on Un-American
  Activities, 444; and I Led Three Lives, 460; and Marx, Groucho, 610
Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, 1039
Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA), 191, 1039
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 220, 285, 904; and censorship, 178; and pay television, 723
Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, 1041
Federal Housing Administration (FHA), 61, 143, 452, 775
Federal Reserve Board, 474; and inflation, 480; and Recession of 1957-1958, 774
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 22, 175, 763
Federal Voting Assistance Act of 1955, 1042
Federal Youth Corrections Act of 1950, 1039
Feiner v. New York (1951), 1046
Feldman, William, 615
Feldstein, Al, 209
Feller, Bob, 95
Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), 235
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 1005
Feminism; roots of, 1002-1007; and The Second Sex, 829-830
Fender, Leo, 793
Ferber, Edna, 47, 381, 572, 1051, 1053
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 341-342, 576, 737, 814, 1016; and censorship, 177;
  and Ginsberg, Allen, 104, 384, 813; and Kerouac, Jack, 527; and Patchen, Kenneth, 813;
  and Rexroth, Kenneth, 787
Fermi, Enrico, 249, 914
Ferrer, José, 5, 556, 1017, 1019
Fetter, Ted, 1012
FHA. See Federal Housing Administration
Fifteenth Amendment, 193
Fifth Amendment, 118, 597, 1048; and House Committee on Un-American Activities, 445;
  and House Un-American Activities Committee, 205
Figueroa Cordero, Andres, 751
Film; Academy Awards, 4-11, 1026, 1028; and African Americans, 33; and beach culture, 888-890;
  "biopics," 1104; and Broadway musicals, 348; in Canada, 217, 342-343; and censorship, 178;
  and color, 344; and comic books, 210; and dance, 251; drive-in theaters, 281-283; and
  fashions, 329; Hays Office, 178; of Hitchcock, Alfred, 5, 256, 423-425, 1018, 1021, 1024;
  Japanese, 508; science-fiction, 347; and television, 342, 344-351, 723-724, 904, 926, 999;
  3-D movies, 926-927; in United States, 344-351, 1017, 1025; war films, 986-989;
  wide-screen formats, 66, 998-999
Film noir, 349, 986
Finney, Jack, 497, 579
First Canadians, 631-634; demographics, 259; and Indian Act of 1951, 478-479
First One Hundred Years, The, 910
Fischer, Fred, 65
Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, 1043
Fish sticks, 1105
Fisher, Eddie, 892, 1060
Fisheries, 1042-1043
Fishermen's Protective Act of 1954, 1042
Fitzgerald, Ella, 33, 351-352, 510, 728, 734, 880; and Newport Jazz Festival, 679;
  and Storyville, 679
Fitzgerald, George S., 428
Five Satins, 1060
Fixed Bayonets, 986
Flamenco dancing, 330, 396
Flanders, Ralph, 63
Fleetwoods, the, 1060
Fleming, Alexander, 615
Fleming, Eric, 912
Flemming, Arthur S., 419
Flesch, Rudolf, 297, 386, 997-998
Flexner, Eleanor, 1004
Floating Opera, The (Barth), 579
Flood Insurance Act of 1956, 1043
Flores Rodríguez, Irvin, 751
Florida; Cape Canaveral, 76, 657, 857; Cuban exiles in, 172, 246, 469, 554-555; fast-food
  restaurants, 334; Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, 790; Walt Disney World, 377
Flower Drum Song (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 132, 801, 1033
Flu epidemic, 73-74
Flying Leathernecks, 986
Flying saucers, 256-257, 323, 352-353, 358
Flynn, Errol, 226, 245
Foley, Red, 1060
Folk music, 106, 648; Kingston Trio, 531, 813, 1063; and San Francisco Renaissance, 814
Folsom, Marion B., 418
Fonda, Henry, 986, 1021, 1023
Fong, Hiram, 71, 412
Food Additives Amendment Act of 1958, 1045
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 114, 414, 500, 616, 931
Food for Peace, 39-40, 353-354, 1041; and farm subsidies, 328
Football, 354-357; Canadian Football League champions, 1070; Heisman Trophy
  winners, 1070; NFL champions, 1069; NFL most valuable players, 1069; NFL rookies of
  the year, 1070; professional, 862; squib kicks, 1107; tear-away jerseys, 1107; and
  television, 862; University of Oklahoma, 701; and West Point honor code scandal, 995
Football players; Brown, Jim, 133-134, 863; Graham, Otto, 356; Unitas, Johnny, 959-960
FOR. See Fellowship of Reconciliation
Forbidden Planet, 357-358, 1021
Ford, Edsel Bryant, 287
Ford, Ford Maddox, 745
Ford, Gerald, 751
Ford, Glenn, 116, 1021
Ford, Henry, 25, 274, 287, 292
Ford, Henry, II, 837
Ford, John, 7, 345, 349-350, 986, 1019, 1021
Ford, Mary, 1064
Ford, Tennessee Ernie, 1060
Ford, Whitey, 94, 872
Ford Motor Company, 81-82, 184; assembly line production, 25; Edsel, 22, 83, 286-288;
  Ford Thunderbird, 358-359; market share of, 372; and unions, 189-190
Ford Theatre, 906
Ford Thunderbird, 82, 358-359; and Chevrolet Corvette, 184, 358
Foreign Economic Assistance Act of 1950, 231, 1039
Foreign policy, Canadian, 158-160, 359-363; and continentalism, 241-242; and
  economy, 141; and Great Britain, 153-156; and isolationism, 503
Foreign policy, U.S., 363-366; and Acheson, Dean, 11-12; and brinkmanship,
  129-130; and Central Intelligence Agency, 180-183; and China, 12, 79, 181-182, 185-189, 307,
  364, 536, 593, 853; and continentalism, 241-242; and Cuba, 245-248; and "Domino
  theory," 980; and Dulles, John Foster, 283-284; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 301; and
  Eisenhower Doctrine, 303; and Espionage and Sabotage Act, 320-321; Formosa Resolution, 366-367;
  and Geneva Summit Conference, 374-376; and Germany, 377-379; and Guatemala, 181, 960; and
  Iran, 181; and isolationism, 503-504; and Japan, 364; and Kennan, George F., 524-525; and
  Latin America, 126-127, 364, 400-402, 552-555, 693, 713-714, 960-961; and Lebanon, 560-562;
  and Lodge, Henry Cabot, 583-584; and Mexico, 620-624; and Nixon, Richard M., 692-693; and
  postwar recovery, 147; and Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 852-854; and Tripartite
  Security Treaty, 935; and Truman Doctrine, 939-940; U-2 spy planes, 947-948; and United
  Fruit Company, 960-961; and United States Information Agency, 965-966
Foreman, Carl, 5
Forest, Lee de, 934
Former Presidents Act of 1958, 1045
Formosa Resolution, 233, 366-367
Forssmann, Werner, 694
FORTRAN, 224, 367, 485, 824, 967
Fosse, Bob, 132, 919
Foster, Lewis, 986
Foster, William Z., 223
Four Aces, the, 1061
400 Blows, The (Les Quatre-Cent Coups), 11
Four Color comic books, 210
Four Lads, the, 1061
Four Preps, the, 1061
Fourteenth Amendment; equal protection clause, 118, 134, 151, 422, 883, 890, 982;
  origins of, 134
Fowler Commission, 161, 903
Foxx, Redd, 367
France; and Antarctica, 54, 487; Gaulle, Charles de, 681; and Israel, 504; and Suez
  Crisis, 154, 158, 361, 560, 877, 963; and Vietnam, 63, 320, 364, 543, 852, 979-980
Francis, Anne, 358
Francis, Arlene, 19, 901
Francis, Clarence, 493
Francis, Connie, 1061
Frank, Anne, 1024
Frankenheimer, John, 350
Frankenstein, 245
Frankfurter, Felix, 887
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, 1063
Franklin, Benjamin, 814
Frawley, William, 462, 906
Freberg, Stan, 367-368
Free speech, 1010; and advertising, 22; and Dennis v. United States, 265-266; and
  Inherit the Wind, 481-482; and National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People v. Alabama
, 659-660; and Supreme Court, U.S., 885, 1047; and
  Yates v. United States, 1010
Freed, Alan, 368-369, 651, 794-795, 931, 1015; Rock and Roll Stage Shows, 797;
  and Rock Around the Clock, 800
Freud, Sigmund, 1, 1005
Freund, Karl, 907
Frick, Ford, 93
Friedan, Betty, 830, 1005
Friendly, Fred W., 764
Frings, Ketti, 1054
Frisbee, 323, 454
Frizzell, Lefty, 1061
From Here to Eternity, 8, 369, 841, 986, 1019; Academy Awards, 1027;
  and Clift, Montgomery, 201
From Here to Eternity (Jones), 578
Frost, Robert, 736
Fry, Christopher, 921
Fuchs, Klaus, 204, 338, 536, 803
Fugitive, The, 838
Fujii, Sei, 151
Fulbright Act of 1946, 965
Fuller, R. Buckminster, 60, 377, 498
Fuller, Samuel, 986
Funicello, Annette, 625
Funny Face, 348; and Parker, Suzy, 719
Fur Products Labeling Act of 1951, 22, 1040
Furillo, Carl, 94

G
Gable, Clark, 359, 637, 986
Gaedel, Eddie, 95
Gagarin, Yuri, 859
Gaines, Max, 209
Gaines, William M., 209, 212-213, 370, 602-603
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 26-28, 477; on automobiles, 144; on conformity, 227
Gallico, Paul, 1053
Gallup polls, 122, 155, 370-371, 778, 817, 958
Gambling, 522, 764; basketball point-shaving scandal, 100-102; and bowling, 125; and
  organized crime, 714; and Supreme Court, U.S., 1047
Gann, Ernest K., 1051
Garcia, Jerry, 104
García Pérez, Héctor, 558
Gardner, Ava, 523, 707, 841, 1018, 1024
Gardner, Erle Stanley, 121, 727
Garland, Judy, 841, 1020
Garner, James, 350, 611-612, 912
Garner v. Louisiana (1961), 199
Gates, John, 223
GATT. See General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Gaulle, Charles de, 681
Gay rights, 436-438
Gaye, Lisa, 800
Gayle v. Browder (1956), 884
Gaylords, the, 1061
Gaynor, Mitzi, 1024
Geddes, Norman Bel, 922
Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 832-833
Gélinas, Gratien, 918
Gene Autry Show, The, 911
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 148, 242; and Canada, 489; and Great
  Britain, 155; and Japan, 508; and United States, 492
General Electric Theater, 906
General Mills, 113
General Motors, 81, 144, 371-373; assembly line, 372; Chevrolet Corvette, 184-185;
  and DuPont, 147; and labor unions, 956; stylists, 81; and Time "Man of the Year," 681;
  and World's Fair, 496
Generation gap, 252, 601, 1012-1016
Genero, Peter, 919
Genetics, 373-374, 994-995; and Asian flu, 73-74; and DNA, 276-278; human growth
  hormone, 455-456; and Ribonucleic acid (RNA), 787-788
Geneva Summit Conference, 374-376; and disarmament movement, 273
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 349, 376-377, 1019
Geodesic dome, 377, 498
George, Walter, 232, 855
George Gobel Show, The, 385
George VI, 315
Germany; Berlin Air Lift, 202; emigrants to Canada, 260, 464, 632; emigrants to United
  States, 466, 985; and Geneva Summit Conference, 375; Harlem Globetrotters in, 410;
  Harlem Globetrotters tour, 99; and NATO, 697, 991; postwar occupation of, 202, 377-379;
  and Radio Free Europe, 765; rocket research in, 618, 655, 856; unemployment, 950; and
  U.S. spy planes, 947; Volkswagen automobile, 982-983
Gernsback, Hugo, 755
Geronimi, Clyde, 728
Getty, J. Paul, 379
Ghana, 271
G.I. Bill, 380-381, 474, 599, 1013; and book publishing, 120; and Canada, 289;
  and education, 292; and labor, 381
Giant, 257, 381-382, 1022; Academy Awards, 1028; and Hudson, Rock, 454
Giant (Ferber), 572
Gibbon, John, 617
Gibbs, Georgia, 1061
Gibson, Althea, 33, 382-383, 863, 915; major titles, 1071
Gibson, Bob, 96
Gibson, Don, 1061
Gibson, Virginia, 899
"Gidget," 1105
Gidget (film), 889
Gigi, 9, 1023; Academy Awards, 1028
Gilbert, George, 253
Gilbert, Ronnie, 648
Gillespie, Darlene, 625
Gillespie, Dizzy, 106, 647, 1016; and Newport Jazz Festival, 679
Gilliam, Jim, 32, 93, 279
Ginsberg, Allen, 102, 229, 383-385, 509, 576, 812; and Corso, Gregory, 243; and
  Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 813; "Howl," 103, 177, 341, 384, 737, 784, 812; and Kerouac, Jack, 384;
  and Patchen, Kenneth, 813; and Rexroth, Kenneth, 787
Ginzburg, Vitaly, 882
Girard, Alexander, 434
Giraudoux, Jean, 921
Girl Can't Help It, The, 346
Glasgow, Ellen, 579
Gleason, Jackie, 439; and DuMont network, 285; Honeymooners, The, 51, 438-439
Glen or Glenda, 1007
Glennan, Keith, 657
Glossary, 1104-1107
Go-karts, 1105
Go, Man, Go!, 410
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin), 574
Gobel, George, 385; Emmy Award, 1036
God and Man at Yale (Buckley), 385-386
Godfrey, Arthur, 368
God's Country and Mine (Barzun), 386-387
Godzilla, 508
Goff, Bruce, 59
Gold, Herbert, 575, 756
Goldbergs, The, 387, 761
Golden, Harry, 388, 1053
Goldwater, Barry, 240, 597
Golf, 389-390; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 389; tournament champions, 1072
Golfers; Berg, Patty, 390, 1072; Gibson, Althea, 383; Hogan, Ben, 389-390, 429, 863, 1072;
  Jones, Bobby, 429; Middlecoff, Cary, 390, 1072; Nelson, Byron, 390; Nicklaus, Jack, 389, 429;
  Palmer, Arnold, 389, 1072; Snead, Sam, 390, 429, 847-848, 1072; Suggs, Louise, 389, 1072;
  Zaharias, Mildred (Babe) Didrikson, 390, 863, 1072
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 730
Gonzáles, Pancho, 391, 545, 915
González, Henry B., 558
Good Housekeeping, 449
Goodbye Columbus (Roth), 574
Goodman, Percival, 783
Goodrich, Frances, 1054
Goodson, Mark, 319, 506
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 772
Gordien, Fortune, 700
Gordon, Walter, 157, 490
Gordon Commission, 157, 164
Gordy, Berry, Jr., 645, 796, 1067
Gore, Albert, Sr., 496
Goren, Charles, 391-392
Gorky, Arshile, 3, 258, 533
Gosden, Freeman, 51
Gottlieb, Adolph, 2
Gottlieb, Sidney, 182
Gouzenko, Igor, 204
Goyen, William, 579
Grady, Don, 625
Graham, Barbara, 1023
Graham, Billy, 392-393, 735, 782, 837; Secret of Happiness, The, 1052
Graham, Evarts, 415, 616
Graham, John, 258
Graham, Otto, 356
Grand Canyon airliner collision, 393-394
Granger, Farley, 1018
Granger, Stewart, 1017
Grant, Cary, 524, 761, 1021-1022, 1024
Grant, Gogi, 1061
Grant, Kirby, 842
Granz, Norman, 351
Graylisting, 1106
Great Books movement, 394-395
Great Britain; and Canada, 153-156, 270, 984; and Suez Crisis, 877-879; and United States, 878
Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956, 1043
Greatest Show on Earth, The, 7, 790, 1018; Academy Awards, 1026
Greco, José, 66, 396
Greece, 202, 939-940
Green, Elijah "Pumpsie," 93
Green, William, 613, 958
Greenberg, Clement, 1
Greene, Graham, 1024
Greene, Lorne, 912
Greenglass, David, 803
Greenglass, Ruth, 803
Greenspan, Alan, 77
Grey Cup champions, 1070
Grierson, John, 342
Griffin, James B., 56
Griffin, John, 177
Griffin v. Illinois (1956), 1048
Griffith, Andy, 1024
Gross national product, Canadian, 396-398
Gross national product, U.S., 142, 263, 398-400
Groves of Academe, The (McCarthy), 576
Gruening, Ernest, 46-47
Guard, Dave, 531
Guatemala, 180-181, 320, 365, 553, 713, 960
Guatemala invasion, 400-402
Guevara, Ernesto "Che," 171, 246, 402, 960
Guggenheim, Peggy, 1, 742
Guggenheim Museum, 59, 402-403
Guideposts, 724
Guiding Light, The, 910
Guinness, Alec, 9, 987, 1022, 1024
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 972, 1022
Gunsmoke, 403-405, 912-913; comic book version, 210; Emmy Awards, 1037-1038
Gunsmoke (radio), 762
Gunther, John, 405-406, 1052-1053
Guston, Philip, 3
Guterma, Alexander, 653
Guthrie, A. B., Jr., 1054
Guthrie, Tyron, 917
Guthrie, Woody, 648
Guys and Dolls (Loesser), 132, 557, 919, 1029
Gypsy (Sondheim), 132, 919, 1033

H
Haberler, Gottfried, 490
Hackett, Albert, 1054
Hagen, Jean, 1019
Hagerthy, Ron, 842
Haggerty, Patrick, 499
Hairstyles, 323, 407-408; crew-cuts, 1105; and fashion, 331; ponytails, 1106
Haley, Bill, 251-252, 347, 408-410, 651, 795, 880; and Holly, Buddy, 797;
  notable songs, 1061; and radio, 762; and Rock Around the Clock, 800
Hall, Gus, 223
Hamilton, Brutus, 124
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 722, 962-963, 1008
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 132, 801-802, 871, 919, 1018, 1021-1022, 1024
Hammett, Dashiell, 755
Handler, Ruth, 89
Handy, W. C., 649
Hansberry, Lorraine, 574, 919, 921
Hardy Boys, The, 625
Hargitay, Mickey, 105
Harlan, John Marshall, 883, 887
Harlem Globetrotters, 33, 99, 410; and Chamberlain, Wilt, 183; and Gibson, Althea, 383
Harlem Globetrotters, The, 410, 1026
Harris, Bucky, 94
Harris, Bud, 51
Harris, Julie, 922; Emmy Award, 1038
Harrison, Rex, 132, 653-654
Harrison, Robert, 225-226
Harrison, Wilbert, 1061
Hartigan, Grace, 3
Harvey, 1017
Harvey, Laurence, 110, 1025
Haskin, Byron, 989
Hatful of Rain, A, 346
Hauser, Gayelord, 1051
Have Gun, Will Travel (radio), 762
Have Gun, Will Travel (TV), 911
Hawaii; Asian American population, 68, 467; fiction about, 624; hula dancing, 324, 454-455;
  statehood, 411-412, 1045; and surfing, 888; volcanoes, 823
Hawaii (Michener), 624
Hawaii Statehood Admissions Act of 1959, 1045
Hawks, Howard, 201, 350, 636, 1025; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 376-377; Thing
  from Another World, The
, 923-924, 1018
Hay, Harry, 437
Hayakawa, S. I., 71
Hayakawa, Sessue, 987
Hayden, Carl, 233
Hayden, Sterling, 446, 1020
Hayek, Friedrich A., 238
Hayes, Helen, 1021
Haynes, George Edmund, 196
Hays, Lee, 648, 1067
Hayward, Susan, 1023
Hayworth, Rita, 1024
Health Amendments Act of 1956, 1043
Health care; in Canada, 412-414; and cancer, 165-168; and hearing aids, 419-420; and
  polio, 740-742; and smoking, 845-847; and U.S. legislation, 1042, 1043; in United States, 414-418
Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of, 239, 418-419, 1006
Health Research Facilities of 1956, 1043
Hear It Now, 764
Hearing aids, 419-420
Hearst, William Randolph, 684
Heart surgery, 617
Hecht, Anthony, 736
Hecht, Ben, 924
Heflin, Van, 1020
Hefner, Hugh, 732-734
Hegben Lake earthquake, 665
Heinlein, Robert A., 266, 579
Heisman Trophy, 1070
Hellerman, Fred, 648
Hellman, Lillian, 445
Hells Angels, 643
Hemingway, Ernest, 245, 420-421, 577, 745, 1051, 1054; and Callaghan, Morley, 570;
  and DiMaggio, Joe, 273; Nobel Prize, 695, 696
Hempden, Walter, 920
Hench, Philip S., 615, 695
Henderson, Skitch, 930
Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), 106, 574
Henderson v. United States (1950), 883
Hennings, Thomas, 212
Henry, O., 190
Henry J, 144
Hepburn, Audrey, 8, 329, 349-350, 719, 1019
Hepburn, Katharine, 1017, 1019
Herbert, Don, 899
Herblock (Herbert Block), 421-422
Hernández v. Texas (1954), 422, 558, 990, 1047
Hero sandwich, 1106
Hersey, John, 423, 573, 833, 1051
Hershey, Frank, 82, 358
Hertz, Roy, 414
Hess, Thomas, 1
Heston, Charlton, 11, 108, 110, 345, 1022, 1024
Hexagone, L', 571
Heyerdahl, Thor, 533, 1053; Kon-Tiki, 533-534, 1051
Hibbler, Al, 1061
Hibbs, Ben, 814
Higgins, Marguerite, 685
High Noon, 5, 349, 449, 907, 1018; and Kelly, Grace, 523
Highways; and agriculture, 37; and archaeology, 55; and automobile industry, 371; and
  billboards, 21; and housing, 61; interstate, 82, 144, 228, 302, 495-497; and motels, 429, 640-641;
  Pan-American, 554, 713; Trans-Canada Highway, 156, 162, 305, 397, 932-933, 968; and
  urbanization, 264, 562, 675, 970-971; and U.S. legislation, 1042-1043; and water pollution, 994
Hill, Bradford, 616
Hill, T. Arnold, 196
Hiller, Wendy, 1024
Hilltoppers, the, 1062
Himes, Chester, 579
Hines, Earl, 208
Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman, 694
Hippie movement, 104, 708, 814, 1016; and Beat generation, 1016
Hiroshima, 79
Hispanics. See Latinos
Hiss, Alger, 12, 204, 222, 238, 536, 689
Hitchcock, Alfred, 350, 423-425, 999; and Academy Awards, 5; Dial M for
  Murder
, 1020; and Kelly, Grace, 523; Man Who Knew Too Much, The, 1022;
  North by Northwest, 987, 1024; Rear Window, 1020; Strangers on a
  Train
, 1018; and 3-D movies, 927; To Catch a Thief, 1021; Vertigo, 1024;
Ho Chi Minh, 63, 364, 852, 979
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 418, 1006
Hockey, 425-427, 864; Howe, Gordie, 426; Olympic, 702, 706; O'Ree, Willie, 712
Hodges, Gil, 94, 278
Hodgson, Peter, 324, 839
Hoerni, Jean, 934
Hoffa, Jimmy, 427-429, 893-894; and Kennedy, Robert F., 597
Hoffman, Dustin, 13
Hoffman, Max, 983
Hofmann, Hans, 2
Hogan, Ben, 389-390, 429, 863; major titles, 1072
Holden, William, 8, 346, 882, 986, 1017, 1020, 1022
Holiday, Billie, 511, 679
Holiday Inn, 144, 429-430, 640
Holland, James, 414
Holliday, Judy, 1017
Holly, Buddy, 49, 430-431, 651, 796, 880, 974; and Diddley, Bo, 269; and
  Haley, Bill, 797; notable songs, 1062; and Presley, Elvis, 797
"Hollywood Ten," 206, 941
Holm, Celeste, 5
Holmes, John Clellon, 102
Holocaust, 378, 783; in films, 988; in literature, 423
Holt, Harry, 70
Home appliances, 143, 431-433, 435; electronic, 499; and hairstyles, 408
Home furnishings, 143, 433-436
Homosexuality, 436-438; and Beat generation, 103; in Cat on a Hot Tin
  Roof
, 172-173; and Clift, Montgomery, 201; and Cohn, Ray, 65; and Federal Bureau of
  Investigation, 339; in films, 346; and Hudson, Rock, 454; and McCarthy, Joseph, 339; and
  scandal magazines, 225; and Williams, Tennesee, 877
Hondo, 927
Honeymooners, The, 51, 438-439; comic book version, 210; Emmy Awards, 1037
Hoof-and-mouth disease, 440, 620
Hooker, Evelyn, 436
Hooker, John Lee, 794
Hoover, Erna Schneider, 896
Hoover, Herbert C., 442
Hoover, J. Edgar, 440-442; and Federal Bureau of Investigation, 338-341; and
  House Committee on Un-American Activities, 444; and I Led Three Lives, 461; and
  McCarthy, Joseph R., 339; Masters of Deceit, 1053
Hopalong Cassidy, 898, 911
Hoover Commission, 442-443
Hope, Bob, 8, 443-444
Hope Commission, 289
Hopkins, John Jay, 389
Hopper, Grace, 224, 320, 498, 967
Horn, Bob, 48
Horne, Lena, 33
Horse racing, 861; Triple Crown races, 1073
Horton, Johnny, 1062
Horton, Lester, 41
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 444-446, 776; and censorship, 175;
  and Cold War, 205; and Communist Party, 222; and film industry, 5, 206, 229, 346, 988; and
  Herblock, 421; and Hiss, Alger, 239; and homosexuals, 436; and Kazan, Elia, 519; and
  Loeb, Philip, 387; and Miller, Arthur, 628; and Nixon, Richard M., 239, 689; and
  Steinbeck, John, 871; and Trumbo, Dalton, 940
House of Representatives, U.S. See Congress, U.S.
House of Wax, 1019
House Party, 569
Houser, George, 235
Housewives, 88, 263, 522, 762; and advertising, 23; and cooking, 113, 944; and
  exercise, 549; on television, 462, 1003; and Tupperware, 942; and unemployment, 949
Housing; in Canada, 446-448; and conformity, 226; and home appliances, 431; and
  home furnishings, 433-436; Levittown, 562-564; in United States, 143, 264, 448-453
Housing Act of 1949, 451
Housing Act of 1954, 1042
Housing Act of 1956, 1043
Housing Act of 1957, 1044
Houston, Charles Hamilton, 31
Houston, John, 986
How the West Was Won, 344
How to Marry a Millionaire, 349
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie), 170-171
Howard, Elston, 32
Howdy Doody Show, 453-454, 898, 909; advertising on, 26, 839; comic
  book version, 210; and Keeshan, Bob, 169; and television Westerns, 911
Howe, C. D., 156
Howe, Gordie, 426, 1070
"Howl" (Ginsberg), 103, 384, 737, 784; censorship of, 177, 341; first reading of, 812
Howlin' Wolf, 645, 793-794, 1062
HUAC. See House Committee on Un-American Activities
Hubbard, L. Ron, 825-826
Hudson, Rock, 349, 381, 454, 892, 1020, 1025; homosexuality of, 225
Hughes, Langston, 445
Hula hoops, 323, 454-455, 1106
Human Events, 239
Human growth hormone, 455-456
Humbard, Rex, 782
Humphrey, Hubert H., 234, 307, 690
Huncke, Herbert, 103
Hungarian revolt, 273, 456-458; and Canada, 361, 465; and Communist Party of
  U.S.A., 223; and Geneva Summit Conference, 375; and Khrushchev, Nikita, 528; and
  Olympic Games, 704; refugees, 464; and Time "Man of the Year," 681; and U.S.
  foreign policy, 363, 469; and Warsaw Pact, 992
Hungary; and Mindszenty, József, 630-631; and Olympic Games, 706; and Radio Free
  Europe, 765; and Soviet Union, 528, 630-631, 992; and Warsaw Pact, 991
Hungry i nightclub, 808, 813
Hunt, Lamar, 356
Hunt, Lester C., 522
Hunter, Ivory Joe, 123
Hunter, Kim, 5, 877, 1018
Hurricanes, 623, 665, 667, 669
Husky, Ferlin, 1062
Huston, John, 1017, 1019
Hutchins, Maynard, 297
Hutchins, Robert, 395
Hydrogen bomb, 79, 118, 458-459, 498, 914; and disarmament movement, 273-274; and
  Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 711; and Soviet Union, 458; and Teller, Edward, 914
Hyman, Mac, 1052

I
I Am a Camera, 178
I Confess, 424
I Led Three Lives, 460-461
I Love Lucy, 19, 229, 439, 461-463, 905-907; advertising on, 846;
  Emmy Awards, 1036-1037; Latinos on, 557; Lucy's pregnancy, 115; sponsors, 19; theme
  music, 509; and TV Guide, 945; and women's roles, 1003
I Want to Live!, 1023
IBM. See International Business Machines Corporation
Ice hockey. See Hockey
IMF. See International Monetary Fund
Imitation of Life, 346, 1024
Immigration; and Asian Americans, 68-73; to Canada, 259, 464-466, 471; and
  Japan, 507; and racial discrimination, 758; to United States, 142, 466-470, 709-710;
  and urbanization, 968; and war brides, 69, 507, 984-986
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 232, 463-464, 1040; and China, 189
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), 709-710
In a Lonely Place, 349
"In God We Trust," 470
In Splendid Error (Branch), 921
Inco strike, 470-471
Income; and gross national product, 398-400
Income and wages; in Canada, 471-474; in United States, 145, 474-478
Incredible Shrinking Man, The, 348
India, 68, 124, 153, 464, 541, 971
Indian Act of 1876, 633
Indian Act of 1951, 478-479
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, 661
Indianapolis 500, 1073
Indians, American. See Native Americans
Indonesia, 182
Inflation; in Canada, 479-480; and Economic Stabilization Agency, 286; and
  Korean War, 142; in United States, 480-481
Influenza epidemic, 73-74
Inge, William, 918, 1018, 1054
Inherit the Wind (film), 482
Inherit the Wind (Lawrence and Lee), 481-482, 921, 1031
Inouye, Daniel, 71, 412
INS. See Immigration and Naturalization Service
Instant photography, 482-483, 730
Institute of Pacific Relations, 484
Interagency Committee on Agricultural Surplus Disposal, 493
Internal Revenue Code of 1954, 1042
Internal Security Act of 1950, 222, 444, 469, 484-485, 1039
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), 485-486, 680, 824, 966;
  computers, 224, 367, 486, 529; and transistors, 933; typewriters, 499
International Cultural Exchange and Trade Fair Participation Act of 1956, 1043
International Geophysical Year, 76, 321, 487-488, 656, 823; and Antarctic
  Treaty of 1959, 274, 824; and Antarctica, 54; and Explorer I, 321; planning of, 820;
  and space race, 856, 866; and Van Allen radiation belts, 974
International Lady Garment Workers Union, 957
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 148
International Nickel Company (Inco), 139, 470
Interracial marriage laws, 494-495
Interstate highways, 144, 495-497
Inuit, 632
Invaders from Mars, 353
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 497-498, 1022; and culture of conformity, 229
Invasion of the Saucer Men, 353
Inventions, 498-501; agricultural, 37; aircraft, 43-45, 117; in astronomy, 74;
  in communications, 218; computers, 224-225, 485-486; diamond synthesizing, 268-269;
  electronic amplification, 793; fast-food restaurants, 334; geodesic dome, 377; hearing aids,
  419-420; hula hoops, 454-455; hydrogen bomb, 79, 118, 458-459, 498, 711, 914; instant
  photography, 482-483; integrated circuits, 824, 934; long-playing records, 587-588;
  magnetic recording tape, 645; photographic, 730; photovoltaic cell, 732; Silly Putty, 839;
  Superconductivity, 882-883; synthetic fibers, 820; telecommunications, 894; theme parks, 275;
  transistors, 498, 824, 933-934; TV dinners, 944
Invisible Man (Ellison), 501-503, 573
Iran, 180, 681; and Central Intelligence Agency, 181
"Iron curtain," 202
Iroquois confederacy, 662
Irvin, Monte, 93
Irvine v. California (1954), 1047
Isolationism, 238, 363, 503-504
Israel, 504-506; and Canada, 505; and Egypt, 504; and Exodus, 972;
  and Jewish Americans, 783; and Suez Crisis, 364, 505, 877-879; and United States, 364
It All Started with Columbus (Armour), 62
It Came from Outer Space, 348
I've Got a Secret, 19, 506
Ives, Burl, 1023

J
Jack-in-the-Box restaurants, 334
Jackson, Stonewall, 1062
Jackson, Wilfred, 728
Jaffe, Sam, 256
Jailhouse Rock, 347, 794
James, Etta, 794
James, Harry, 840
James, Joni, 1062
James, Richard, 324
James, Sonny, 1062
Japan, 507-509; and Antarctica, 54; and atomic bombs, 78-79, 711; and Barbie
  dolls, 89; and California's Alien Land Laws, 151-152; and China, 189; and Dulles,
  John Foster, 283; emigrants to United States, 68; films set in, 345; and MacArthur,
  Douglas, 507, 592; postwar occupation of, 202, 592, 985; transistor production, 793;
  unemployment in, 950; and United Nations, 508; and United States, 364; and Vietnam, 979;
  and World War II, 68, 78
Japanese American internment, 70, 71, 507; and Kono, Tommy, 534; and Warren, Earl, 990
Jaws, 245
Jazz, 509-512, 647; Basie, Count, 648; and Broadway musicals, 919; Brubeck,
  Dave, 136-137; Charles, Ray, 679; and Cold War, 512; Holiday, Billie, 511; Newport Jazz
  Festival, 678-680; notable musicians, 1056, 1067; and rock and roll, 510; and San
  Francisco Renaissance, 813-814
Jebb, Sir Gladwyn, 203
Jeffers, Robinson, 577
Jehovah's Witnesses, 735, 782
Jencks, Clinton, 340
Jenkins, Gordon, 1062
Jenkins, Ray, 64
Jeter, Mildred, 494
Jethroe, Sam, 93
Jewish Americans, 512-515, 783; Bellow, Saul, 106-107; discrimination against, 380; and
  The Goldbergs, 387; Golden, Harry, 388; and Israel, 504-506, 783; and Ku Klux
  Klan, 546; literature of, 574; military veterans, 978; and release time, 777; and the
  Rosenbergs, 802-804; and World War II, 468; Wouk, Herman, 1008-1009
Johansson, Ingemar, 721
"John and Marsha," 367
John Birch Society, 207, 240, 515-516; and McCarthy, Joseph R., 515
John XXIII, Pope, 784
Johnny and the Hurricanes, 1062
Johnny Guitar, 349, 1020
Johns, Jasper, 516-517; pop art of, 67; and Rauschenberg, Robert, 516
Johnson, Kelly, 947
Johnson, Lyndon B., 231, 239, 381, 469; and Acheson, Dean, 12; and The Affluent
  Society
, 27; and Alaska statehood, 47; and civil rights, 199, 759, 855; and
  education, 294; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 307; and Graham, Billy, 393; and Hawaii
  statehood, 411; and Meany, George, 614; and Rayburn, Sam, 769; and Rowan, Carl T., 806;
  and Vietnam War, 981
Johnson, Mamie, 96
Johnson, Philip, 59
Johnson, Rafer, 863
Johnson, Robert, 649
Johnson, Tor, 1007
Johnson, Van, 1020
Johnston, Johnny, 800
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951), 885
Jones, Bobby, 429
Jones, George, 1062
Jones, James, 369, 578, 1051, 1055
Jones, K. C., 864
Jones, Robert Edmund, 922
Jones, Robert Trent, 390
Jones, Shirley, 123, 1021
Joplin, Janis, 104
Jordan, Louis, 1023
Jorgensen, Christine, 517-518
Journalism; Pearson, Drew, 725-726; and presidential press conferences, 747; and
  radio, 763; Rowan, Carl T., 805-806
Joyce, James, 102
Judaism, 512-515, 783; and Ben-Hur, 108-109; and Bible, 786; and Israel, 504
Jung, Carl, 1, 353
Jungle Jim, 898
Junk mail, 1106
Jupiter's Darling, 348
Juvenile delinquency, 835; and comic books, 212, 370, 602; in films, 116-117, 346-347,
  772-773, 999-1000, 1014; and hairstyles, 323; and motorcycle gangs, 642-643; and
  rock and roll, 651, 795

K
Kádár, János, 457
Kafka, Franz, 102
Kahanamoku, Duke, 889
Kahn, Roger, 848
Kaiser, Henry, 61, 144
Kallman, Chester, 875
Kantor, MacKinlay, 1052, 1054
Karloff, Boris, 506, 728
Katzman, Sam, 800
Kazan, Elia, 347, 519-520, 709, 1000, 1029, 1033; and Academy Awards, 5; and
  Actors Studio, 12, 519, 919, 921; and Brando, Marlon, 128; East of Eden, 871;
  and House Committee on Un-American Activities, 446, 1019-1020; and Miller, Arthur, 628;
  and Monroe, Marilyn, 446; On the Waterfront, 708-709, 1020; Streetcar Named
  Desire, A
, 5, 876-877, 1000, 1018; Viva Zapata!, 871, 1019; and Williams, Tennessee, 922
Keaton, Buster, 11, 66
Keats, John, 83, 144
Keeshan, Bob, 169, 899
Kefauver, Estes, 313, 520-522, 714, 874; and Celler-Kefauver Act, 174; and
  comic books, 212; Emmy Award, 1036; and Kefauver Committee, 522-523
Kefauver Committee, 63, 231, 521, 522-523, 714-715
Kellogg, Junius, 101
Kelly, Emmett, 790
Kelly, Gene, 348, 1017, 1019
Kelly, Grace, 8, 407, 424, 523-524, 680, 906, 1018, 1021; and fashions, 329;
  and Hitchcock, Alfred, 523
Kelly, Jack, 611-612, 912
Kelly, Walt, 738
Kendall, Edward C., 615, 695
Kennan, George F., 524-525, 698
Kennedy, Arthur, 920
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 207, 525-526
Kennedy, John F., 122, 207, 521, 525-527, 597; and economy, 142, 148; and
  McCarthy, Joseph, 525; and Meany, George, 614; Profiles in Courage, 750-751; and
  Rayburn, Sam, 769; and Sheen, Bishop Fulton J., 837; and space race, 859; and Stevenson,
  Adlai, 874; and Truman, Harry S., 525
Kennedy, Robert F., 428, 525; and Hoffa, Jimmy, 597; and McCarthy, Joseph, 64; and
  McClellan Committee, 958
Kent v. Dulles (1958), 885, 1049
Kenton, Stan, 679, 809
Kentucky Derby, 861
Kentucky Fried Chicken, 334
Keown, Kenneth K., 414
Kern, Jerome, 1018
Kerouac, Jack, 229, 527, 578, 812, 1016; and "Beat generation," 102; Big Sur, 104;
  and Burroughs, William, 138, 655; and Cassady, Neal, 527; and Corso, Gregory, 243; and
  Ginsberg, Allen, 384; On the Road, 84, 103, 527, 708, 812, 1016; religious
  beliefs, 784; and Snyder, Gary, 104, 784; Town and the City, The, 812
Kerr, Deborah, 802, 1018-1019, 1022, 1024
Kerr, Jean, 1053
Kesey, Ken, 104
Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 1051-1053
Khrushchev, Nikita, 528, 692; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 302, 363, 528; and Geneva
  Summit Conference, 375; and Hungarian revolt, 456; and "kitchen debate," 690, 692-693;
  Time "Man of the Year," 681; U.S. visit, 528-529
Kidd, Michael, 919
Kilby, Jack, 224, 498, 934
Killebrew, Harmon, 96, 865
Killer's Kiss, 345
Killgallen, Dorothy, 19, 901
Killian, James R., 267
Kim Il Sung, 535
King, B. B., 646, 1062
King, Coretta Scott, 530
King, Henry, 986
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 529-531; and Belafonte, Harry, 106; and Civil Rights
  movement, 197; and Federal Bureau of Investigation, 339; and Golden, Harry, 388; and
  Graham, Billy, 393; and Montgomery bus boycott, 638-639; and Parks, Rosa, 720
King and I, The (film), 802, 1022; Academy Awards, 1027
King and I, The (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 132, 801, 1030
King Creole, 347, 749
King Kong, 245
King Solomon's Mines, 1017, 1026
Kingsley Books v. Brown (1957), 1048
Kingsley International Pictures Corp. v. Regents of the State of New York (1959), 177, 886, 1050
Kingsmen, the, 590
Kingston Trio, 531, 648, 813; notable songs, 1063
Kinsey, Alfred C., 532, 835, 1051; on homosexuality, 436
Kinsey Report, 115, 532, 835, 1051
Kinzua Dam, 663
Kirk, Russell, 238
Kirk, Tommy, 625
Kirklin, John, 614, 617
Kiss Me Deadly, 349, 1021
Kiss Me Kate, 927
"Kitchen debate" (Nixon), 690, 692-693
Kitt, Eartha, 208, 368, 922, 1063
Klamath people, 663
Klein, Max, 718
Kleitman, Nathaniel, 767
Kline, Franz, 3, 229, 258, 532-533
Klondike Big Inch Land Company, 831
Klugman, Jack, 1023
Knight, Goodwin J., 276
Knoll, Florence, 434
Knox, Buddy, 1063
Koch, Desmond, 700
Kohner, Frederick, 890
Kohner, Kathy, 890
Konitz, Lee, 509, 679
Kono, Tommy, 534-535
Kon-tiki, 533
Kon-Tiki (Heyerdahl), 533-534, 1051
Korean War, 204, 535-544; African Americans in, 196; aircraft, 44; and amputees, 168;
  and Asian Americans, 70; and atomic bomb, 79, 301; and Bradley, Omar, 127-128; and
  business, 843; and Canada, 360-361; casualties, 535; and censorship, 175; and Central
  Intelligence Agency, 180; and China, 186-189; and Congress, U.S., 231; and disarmament
  movement, 273; and doctor shortage, 416; and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 301; in films, 986; and
  gross national product, 398; and Hope, Bob, 443; and inflation, 142, 399, 480; and Japan, 507; and
  MacArthur, Douglas, 592-594; MASH, 1106; military conscription, 626; refugees, 537; and
  Ridgway, Matthew B., 788-789; and Soviet Union, 535; and Taiwan, 185, 536, 593, 725; and
  Truman, Harry S., 937; and unemployment, 145; and United Nations, 535-544, 961; and
  U.S. economy, 142; veterans organizations, 977; and Vietnam, 543; and war brides, 985
Kornberg, Arthur, 695
Koufax, Sandy, 94, 96, 865
Kovacs, Ernie, 544-545, 602, 909, 930; and DuMont network, 285
Kraft Television Theatre, 832
Kramer, Jack, 545, 865, 915
Kramer, Stanley, 9, 707-708, 1023-1024
Kramm, Joseph, 1054
Krasner, Lee, 3, 642, 742
Kroc, Ray, 144, 334, 545-546
Ku Klux Klan, 546-547; and White Citizens' Councils, 546, 997
Kubrick, Stanley, 9, 345, 1022; Paths of Glory, 987
Kuiper, Gerard, 74
Kukla, Fran and Ollie, 396, 547, 898, 909; Emmy Award, 1036
Kunitz, Stanley, 1055
Kunz v. New York (1951), 1046
Kusch, Polykarp, 695

L
Labor, 145; AFL-CIO merger, 28-29; and African Americans, 30, 196;
  agricultural, 38, 126-127, 969; and baseball, 93; and bracero program, 126-127; and
  Canadian immigration, 464, 632; and Canadian income levels, 471-474; Canadian Labour
  Congress, 161-162; and Canadian unemployment, 948-949; and Canadian unions, 953-955;
Canadian workforce, 633; Chrysler autoworkers strike, 189-190; and G.I. Bill, 381; and
  health care industry, 417; and Latinos, 555; and Meany, George, 613-614; and Recession of
  1957-1958, 774; service sector, 263; structure of workforce, 264; and U.S. demographics, 263;
  and U.S. immigration, 466, 552, 620, 709-710; and U.S. income levels, 474-478; and
  U.S. unemployment, 950-953; and U.S. unions, 956-959; and women, 22, 264, 950, 1003
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, 549, 1045
Laborit, Henri, 616, 931
Lacrosse, 133
Ladd, Alan, 8, 1019
Lady Chatterley's Lover (film), 177, 886, 1050
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence), 177, 548-549, 886, 1053
Laguerre, Andre, 865
Laine, Frankie, 647, 1063
Lait, Jack, 1051
Lakers, Minneapolis, 862
LaLanne, Jack, 549
Lamantia, Philip, 812
Lamb, Willis, Jr., 695
Lamb Chop, 898
LaMotta, Jake, 792
Lamour, Dorothy, 443
L'Amour, Louis, 121
Lancaster, Burt, 986, 1018-1020, 1022, 1024
Land, Edwin, 482-483
Land Beyond the River, A (Mitchell), 921
Landau, Lev, 882
Landon, Michael, 912
Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959, 146, 234, 549-550, 893, 958
Landy, John, 131
Lang, Fritz, 986
Lansbury, Angela, 1023
Lansdale, Edward, 180, 980
Lansky, Meyer, 245
Lanson, Snooky, 1012
Laos, 12, 947; and Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 852-854
Lapidus, Morris, 62
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 444
Larsen, Don, 94, 550-551
Larson, Arthur, 314
Lasers, 330, 499
Lassie, 551-552; Emmy Awards, 1036
LaStarza, Roland, 607
Latin America, 552-555; and bracero program, 126-127; Cuba, 245-248; emigration to
  United States, 554; Guatemala, 400-402; and Latinos, 555; Mexico, 620-624; Nixon's
  tour of, 693; and Organization of American States, 713-714; Puerto Rico, 752-754; and
  United Fruit Company, 960-961; and U.S. foreign policy, 320, 364; and U.S. immigration, 466;
  U.S. investments in, 157
Latinos, 555-559; in films, 349; and immigration, 467; in literature, 735-736
Lattimore, Owen, 203, 484
Laughton, Charles, 1023
Laundry Workers Union, 29, 958
Laurents, Arthur, 132, 919; West Side Story, 995-996
Lawford, Peter, 841
Lawrence, Andrea Mead, 702
Lawrence, Carol, 996
Lawrence, D. H., 177, 548; Lady Chatterley's Lover, 548-549, 1053
Lawrence, Ernest, 248
Lawrence, Jerome, 481-482, 921
Lawson, James, Jr., 854
LDF. See Legal Defense and Educational Fund
League of Women Voters, 1006
Lean, David, 9, 346, 1022
Leave It to Beaver, 87, 229, 559-560, 898, 907; comic book version, 210
Leaven of Malice (Davies), 570
Lebanon, 704-705, 947; and Eisenhower Doctrine, 303; U.S. occupation of, 303, 365,
  503, 560-562
Lebrón, Lolita, 559, 751-752
Lederberg, Joshua, 695
Lederer, William J., 948, 1053
Lee, George, 197
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 132, 919
Lee, Peggy, 1063
Lee, Robert E., 481-482, 921
Lee, Tsung Dao, 72
Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), 134, 195, 759, 816
Legion of Decency, 178, 346, 877
Legislation, U.S., 1039, 1045
Lehrer, Tom, 562, 602
Leiber, Fritz, 755
Leigh, Janet, 1024
Leigh, Vivien, 5, 876, 877, 1018
Lemmon, Jack, 13, 1021, 1025
Lemon, Bob, 95
Lerner, Alan Jay, 132, 653-654, 919, 1023
Lerner v. Casey (1958), 1049
LeRoy, Mervyn, 1018, 1021, 1024
Lescoulie, Jack, 930
Levant, Oscar, 1019
Levene, P. Aaron, 276
Levertov, Denise, 737
Levinson, Stanley, 854
Levitt, William J., 228, 292, 562-564
Levittown, 228, 292, 562-564; architecture of, 61
Levy, Sol, 98
Lewis, Jerry, 608-609, 907; comic book, 210
Lewis, Jerry Lee, 564-565, 646, 650, 794, 796; notable songs, 1063
Lewis, John L., 565, 956, 958; and Meany, George, 613
Lewis, Robert, 12-13
Lewis, Shari, 898
Lewis, Sinclair, 819
Li, Choh Hao, 455-456
Li, Min Chiu, 414
Libby, Willard G., 55
Liberace, 225, 650
Lib