Few can remember the year 1954, but there were certainly memorable events that transpired 59 years ago. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House; Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe married New York Yankees center fielder Joe DiMaggio; the First Indochina War concluded with the defeat of the French Army; RCA manufactured the first color television and ABC first broadcast the Miss America pageant; the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at an all-time high of 382.74 points; and the average cost of a new car was $1,700 and could be filled with gas for 22 cents per gallon. And while ...