Air pollution and water pollution legislation were not enacted until the sixties. If these had not been enacted, our air and water today would make China look like Yellowstone.
Umm…yeah, here in Mississippi it’s standard policy. Last I checked we just started the 2008/2009 school year.
The only way a kid can’t get paddled for being bad is if mom and dad specifically send something at the beginning of the year that says their child is not allowed to be paddled.
-Joe
In 1957 I would’t have gotten this dumb-ass email forwarded to my by my dumbest ‘friend’.
I don’t remember this… because my mother never learned to drive until the seventies. Even though she got married in 1953. To get out of the house during the day, she would walk to the neighbour’s or take the bus downtown.
In 1957, married women lost their family name and gained their husband’s family name. In 2007, each of the married couple chooses whichever combination of their previous names they desire.
In 1957, homosexual acts were formally regarded as deviant and punishable by jail terms. In 2007, same-sex couples get married (here in Canada, at least) and the controversy has mostly slipped below the radar of the big news publications.
In 1957, the big news publications included newspapers, cinema, radio, and TV. In 2007, the big news publications include fewer newspapers, no cinema, some radio, much more TV, and all kinds of “online” communications.
In 1957, though the Salk vaccine was two years old, there were still many people living in iron lungs after they contracted polio. In 2007, polio is something you have to look up to be certain of, and iron lungs are in museums. (I saw one this summer at a display on Canada Day.)
What?
There is no referring to a school as an Ivy League school. It is a simple fact. The Ivy League is an alliance with 8 members. That is all there have ever have been and all there ever will be. Some people use the term as synonymous with “great school” but that isn’t correct. All of the Ivy League schools are great but there are plenty of other schools that are just as good or better. Stanford, MIT, and Duke are just a few examples.
There Ivy League schools are:
- Harvard
- Princeton
- Yale
- University of Pennsylvania (private)
- Columbia
- Dartmouth
- Cornell
- Brown
In 1957 there were no seat belts, no car seats and no air bags. Dashboard were metal. If you got killed hitting your head on it, tough luck.
Every Labor Day and Memorial Day the networks would track the (large) number of traffic fatalities expected and suffered. Mad had a story one issue about the Labor Day traffic fatality telethons (we’re not making our numbers. Get out there and crash!)
Drinking and driving was considered fun and comical.
In 1962 my father at 45 had a blood clot, and was in the hospital for over a month. In 2005 my father at almost 90 had a blood clot, and was out of the hospital in two days. In 1957 if your retina detached you were blind in that eye. In 2007 it can be repaired with a laser.
In 1957 we couldn’t go to the moon. Oh wait.
And in 1957 unmarried pregnant women still could terminate a pregnancy - but it would be done by a back alley abortionist with a high risk of infection, infertility or death.
Stanford and Duke are too far away. MIT isn’t an Ivy League school because there is no football team. In 1899 someone got killed playing football and they decided that football was a bad idea.
The Ivy League is just that - a league (football) of relatively older schools with ivy covered professors and ivy covered halls.
University of Chicago used to be part of the Ivy League.
In 1957, you were put to sleep to give birth and expectant fathers had to sit in the waiting room. Breast feeding was not encouraged or taught in hospitals, which the women stayed an average of one week, if my nursing school stuff was accurate. It may have been down to 5 days by then–it was during one of the wars that doctors found that getting people UP within 24 hours after surgery helped decrease recovery time. Not sure it the war in question was WW2 or Korea.
I knew a woman who had never learned to drive back in the 80s. Her husband was a small Iowa town vet; they had 6 children. She never learned to drive-I don’t know how she survived, frankly. I lost touch with her daughter (we were in nursing school together).
And the women were encouraged to forget about it…
Hell, in 1987 Lousiana it was still rare to see businesses open on Sundays.
What in the name of all that’s holy are you talking about?
The Ivy League was formed as an athletic league of colleges about 125 years ago. It never included U. Chicago. Only one of its members wasn’t a colonial era school: Cornell.
In more recent years, they made a point of maintaining higher academic standards, but initially it was a football league.
As others have mentioned, Cornell is indeed an Ivy. But it’s still in Ithaca. 
And we liked it that way.
And those who did were likely to get a maximum of three channels unless they lived near NY, LA, or Chicago.
Oops. I thought it was the Ivy League. Upon new thought, I think it used to be part of the Big Ten. It used to be part of SOME damned football league, I know that much…
In 1957, you could have told me not to worry my silly little head about stuff like this and I would not have decked you. 
In 1957 we had rock and roll (white) music and rhythm & blues (colored) music. Radio stations played one or the other, not both.
Almost everyone on television was white.
You are right this time, it was the Big 10. My grandfather played football for them! 
1957 Pre frontal lobotimies were thought to be a good idea, in Japan they were used for ‘difficult children’
1957 Unmarried mothers were put away in mental institutions - news story just a couple of weeks ago is how that last women put in such places died.
1957 Tobacco Companies knew of the harmful effects of smoking, yup even as early as this, but they kept it hidden and buried research.
1957 London Smog - regualarly kills 10’s of thousands every winter, but this year the Lewisham Train disaster caused by poor visibility leave 90 people dead and 173 injured.
2007 No Smogs due to clean air laws - incidence of bronchitis and other chest complaints vastly reduced.
1957 Serious fire at Windscale atomic power station up to then the worlds worst nuclear accident, spread radiation pollution over a huge area.
1957 Continuation of atmospheric nuclear tests Christmas Island for UK H-Bomb and other tests by US in Nevada desert - later on thats where John Wayne goes to make the film ‘The Conquerer’ and subsequently dies of cancer some decades later - this also killed 91 others in the film crew
2007, no atmospheric tests of nuclear devices and not any chance of any more being set off on US soil.
While the universities are older, the Ivy League itself was only formed in 1954. One of its distinctions (although by no means unique) is that league members do not offer any form of athletic scholarship.
You’re right; I beg your pardon. 1873 was the first year that reps from 4 of the schools met to set up a regular athletic competition.
eleanor, no, I couldn’t. I’m a girl too. Of course, in '57, I was one year old. (17 months by now)
And allowing Sunday shopping was a big issue in Ontario in the early eighties. Many newspapers didn’t publish a Sunday edition until then either (the Toronto Star’s big weekend paper is on Saturday, and the Globe and Mail still doesn’t publish a Sunday edition.)