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[SheilaT]

6. Well, they didn't exactly still have polio, but they had the residual effects of it.

And still, by 1962 polio was moving rapidly from public consciousness. We all knew people who'd had polio and were still around (my father-in-law, now deceased, got it in an epidemic in about 1918), but it wasn't in the forefront of what very many people thought about by then. So I do find that way of trying to characterize that year to be distinctly odd. Off, even, because it doesn't relate to what most people were thinking about in any way, shape, or form. Better to have referenced JFK or the Bay of Pigs or something to the effect that the World Series was still being played in the daytime.

It suggests a carelessness with facts. One of my quirks is that I tend to be a stickler for facts and for details being accurate.