Text on "The Year 1957 in Review" Coffee Gift Mug

Eisenhower Doctrine calls for aid to Mideast countries that resist armed aggression from Communist-controlled nations. - The "Little Rock Nine" integrate Arkansas high school. US Economy: US GDP (1998 dollars): $461 billion - Federal spending: $76.58 billion - Federal debt: $272.3 billion - Consumer Price Index: 28.1 - Unemployment: 4.1% - Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03 - Events: Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story debuts on Broadway and brings violence to the stage. - Eugene O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey Into Night is produced posthumously and wins both the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize. - Leave It to Beaver premieres on CBS, ushering in an era of television shows that depict the ideal American. Jailhouse Rock opens nationally and Elvis Presley keeps getting bigger and bigger. - IBM makes FORTRAN scientific programming language available to customers. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work. Movies: The Bridge on the River Kwai, Twelve Angry Men, Sayonara, Peyton Place, Witness for the Prosecution. Books: James Agee, A Death in the Family - John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle - Science: Temporary artificial heart invented by Willem Kolff. - Interferon invented by Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindemann - Clarence W. Lillehie and Earl Bakk invent the internal pacemaker. - Bardeen, Cooper, and Scheiffer propose a theory of superconductivity. - First round-the-world nonstop jet plane flight. Maj. Gen. Archie J. Old, Jr. led a flight of three Boeing B-52 bombers around the world in 45 hours, 19 minutes. - The first new conscripts join the German Bundeswehr - Prototype rotary engines designed by Felix Wankel are tested. - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
Deaths: Humphrey Bogart - Richard E. Byrd - Joseph McCarthy - Arturo Toscanini