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Wednesday, May 23, 1956
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The Headlines
CONVICTS TO GET CANCER INJECTION; 96 at the Ohio State Prison to Aid Fight on Disease Convicts to Get Cancer Injection To Help Try to Solve the Disease Live Cells to Be Injected
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The must-have
Yahtzee
You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Linnaeus (1707)
- Pär Lagerkvist (1891)
- John Bardeen (1908)
- Anatoly Karpov (1951)
- Alan García (1949)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
cooldigfar outhipsquare
Tech Check
Hard Disk Drive (IBM 305), Videotape & Transatlantic Telephone Cable.
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
25,581 days ago
(70 years, 31 days)