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The Year Was 1961–Television shows which premiered included “Password,” “Car 54: Where Are You,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “Mr. Ed”…Disney’s “101 Dalmations” feature-length cartoon was in theaters…John F. Kennedy became president…relations between the U.S. and Cuba became tense in the “Bay of Pigs” incident…on the popular music charts, folks listened to Patsy Cline singing “I Fall to Pieces” as well as “Runaway” by Del Shannon.