Wednesday, May 18, 1955

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The Headlines

Owen Roberts Dies; Former Justice, 80; OWEN J.ROBERTS, EX-JUSTICE, DEAD

#1 at the box office

Blackboard Jungle

The must-have

Gumby

On This Day

• Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Pope John Paul II (1920)
• Bertrand Russell (1872)
• Omar Khayyam (1048)
• Nicholas II (1868)
• Walter Gropius (1883)

Slang

Tech Check

TV Remote Control, Microwave Oven (Home Use) & Hovercraft.

Style of 1955

Silhouette: Rebellious and relaxed

Material: Denim and leather

• Greaser jackets
• Rolled jeans
• Converse

Cost of Living (1950)