By the mid-Sixties he had scored half a dozen minor solo hits on the US Billboard charts.

Groups who had started with skiffle in the mid-Fifties, morphed into rock 'n' roll in the late Fifties and then the Beat Boom of the early to mid-Sixties - reaching their zenith in the psychedelic late Sixties - were to finally fall by the wayside with the onset of progressive/heavy rock and succumb to what their mothers had always plagued them with - which was to 'goo an' gerra a proper job!' Yes, to all things there is a season and tellingly, Thursday October 17, 1968, was offering Old Time Modern Ballroom Dancing, with The Kingsley Quartet for "an evening of adult dancing", priced 4/- for members.

If you're planning to retire in your mid-sixties or later, then the early part of the decade should simply be a repeat of your fifties: continue to save, reduce debt and work with your financial adviser to keep your plans on course.

He was not what one might expect of a Jewish doctor from New York in his mid-sixties; broad, elegant in a red J.

After leaving Egypt in the mid-sixties, Roger went on to enjoy a very successful international career as a journalist and author.

"Maybe it's different when you're in your mid-sixties. So I don't want to make statements about where I'm gonna be in 30 years," she said.

May I remind our smug Foreign Secretary that John F Kennedy sent a dozen military advisers to Vietnam in the mid-Sixties and it ended up with half a million American soldiers fighting a long and unfortunate campaign in Vietnam.

Even as a child in all-white Dundee in the mid-Sixties when I read them, it was obvious that those being insulted in this way were more noble than all the white trash put together.

Equally appealing is Trim Phone from Getting Personal, pounds 29.95, which is a reproduction of the original introduced in the mid-Sixties but became hugely popular in the Seventies.

In Mr Garside's letter he mentions Ted Beresford's son Steve with whom I was friendly in the mid-Sixties. Steve was a wrestler himself, wrestling under the name Steve Clements.

As these veterans approach their mid-sixties, it is important to understand the impact of wartime deployment on health and mental outcomes nearly 40 years later.

Gardeners can expect a steady rise in overnight temperatures into the low to mid-sixties. Then, we can carefully plan the plants' vacation.

Now in her mid-sixties, Johanna Sigurdardotir is the first openly lesbian head of state in history, living in a registered partnership with a renowned writer since 2002.

JAZAN: A Saudi father in his mid-sixties brought a sharp end to his son's happiness when he took as wife the sister of the girl who his son coveted to marry, Okaz newspaper reported yesterday.