Milk was ninety five and you could get a loaf of bread for less than a quarter (.21). Sonny and Cher first appeared on t.v. as did Green Acres, Capt. ...irk, Hogans Hero's, Wild Wild West, I dream of Jeanie, Days of our Lives, Get Smart, Lost in Space and A Charlie Brown Christmas. The Jets signed Joe Namath and Cassius Clay changed his name and the Gateway Arch is completed. Diet Pepsi and Mini Skirts first appear and Kelloggs creates Pop Tarts.Not sure how the weather was that day, but the one. The parachute wasn’t gold, more like copper, but it was still more than I expected. I hung around until noon my last day, mostly saying goodbye, until I couldn’t take another handshake or hug. Despite being unemployed, we weren’t in bad shape. The house was paid for, as were two of our cars, my motorcycle, and her sailboat. She grew up sailing, but I got queasy out of sight of land so I didn’t go with her much. Her friend Barb loved to sail also, so she had a sailing partner. It was at a marina. " Everything will be all right. The water is over one hundred degrees. Come on!"I get the last of my clothes off, standing naked on the boardwalk with the cold biting into my skin. There is no choice. I go straight into the water. The startling contrast between the extreme cold of the air and the heat of the enveloping waters is invigorating beyond description. The sensation is incredible."Oh my god, you've got to come in. The heat feels so good. Come on, trust me, you'll love it."You are very. “Can you please tell me what language they are speaking?”, I asked the seatmate with whom I had been conversing in a mixture of my poor German and her excellent English.“They are speaking German”, she said, then noticing my puzzled look, she added, “They are from Switzerland.”“Oh”, I nodded. That explained it. Swiss German is about as different to what I normally hear as a thick Scots brogue is to American English.If language identification is a problem for me, imagine how difficult it is to.