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Thursday, July 12, 1956
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The Headlines
VIEW ON NEUTRALS EASED BY DULLES; Secretary Asserts There Are 'Very Few, if Any' Nations of the Immoral Kind Switzerland a Special Case Dulles Eases Views on Neutrals; Sees 'Very Few' of Immoral Kind Allusion to India Seen Nixon Assures Pakistanis Basic U.S. Change Doubted
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The King and I
The must-have
Yahtzee
You Share a Birthday With
- Pablo Neruda (1904)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817)
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895)
- Richard Simmons (1948)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Greaser
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Beatnik
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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
25,530 days ago
(69 years, 345 days)