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Thursday, August 2, 1956
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The Headlines
PRESIDENT PRAISES NIXON, STATES NO 'PREFERENCE'; PUTS HEALTH UP TO NATION; Eisenhower Is Confident He Can Serve a 2d Term Feels That He Is Improving Every Day and Stresses His Sense of Obligation to Nation and Republican Party PRESIDENT RAISES ISSUE OF ILLNESS. First Parley in 8 Weeks.
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The King and I
The must-have
Yahtzee
You Share a Birthday With
- Shimon Peres (1923)
- Peter O'Toole (1932)
- Isabel Allende (1942)
- James Baldwin (1924)
- Jorge Rafael Videla (1925)
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
25,509 days ago
(69 years, 324 days)