CROSSWORDS: 1960s

Highlights | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | References


Highlights

  • 1965: Reading-Work-Pieces by artist Arthur Köpcke resembles crossword; 2016: defaced (filled-in)
  • 1969: Margaret Farrar (1st NYT crossword ed.) retires, succeeded by Will Weng;
    ARPAnet (precursor to Internet); Apollo moon landing

1965

1966

  • Crossword (TV game show); An unsold pilot for a game show, basically a crossword puzzle
    played by two teams of two, the game itself is on a large board. Each game has a title denoting the theme
    that the words will lead to. A player chooses a spot on the puzzle board, something like "ten across",
    or Twenty-two down" and then must guess the word from the clues supplied by the emcee.

1967

1968

1969

References

  • The 1960s crossword; NYT Learning Network
  • Wikipedia: 1960s
  • The Decades That Invented the Future: Part 7: 1960s
    2001: A Space Odyssey; venture capital (Rock and Davis); Compact Disc; Muhammad Ali; Spacewar (videogame);
    Douglas Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos"; Nuclear Powered Carrier; Sketchpad (drawing program);
    Psychedelic Research; Concorde; Kennedy Assassination; Saigon Execution Photo; Wired; 12/06/2012
  • Paleofuture: 1960s
  • 9 Influential Inventions That Got Their Start in the 1960s 7/29/2019