Time:
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here
Anymore takes place in August in the
early 1960s.
World Events, 1960-1962:
An American U-2 spy plane, piloted by
Francis Gary Powers, was shot down
over Russia. John F. Kennedy defeated
Richard Nixon. A first class stamp cost 4
cents.
Cuba was invaded at the Bay of
Pigs.
The first U.S. spaceman, Alan B.
Shepard, Jr., rocketed 116.5 miles up in
a 302-mile trip.
The Berlin Wall was
erected. The Second Vatican Council
began.