MY OSTOMY SURGERY was in July, 1964, the same month that Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Four months later he trounced Barry Goldwater for the presidency. It was some year. Gas was thirty cents a gallon, the average new car went for $3,500 and the average new home for $13,050. Workers earned an average annual income of $6,000. It was a major year in rock music with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Supremes, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Simon & Garfunkel. A guy named Cassius Clay won the heavyweight title, beating Sonny Liston. The U. S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which authorized war against North Vietnam without a declaration of war (they called it a police action initially). The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing JFK and that Jack Ruby acted alone in killing Oswald. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Liz Taylor married Richard Burton (for the first time). And speaking of firsts, the first Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line. Perhaps most significantly of all… Buffalo chicken wings appeared at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, N. Y. and I was happy to discover that having an ileostomy did not preclude me from eating them with abandon and an appropriate cold beverage.
HenryM
Apr 23, 2021 7:58 am