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Thursday, October 11, 1956
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The Headlines
U.S. PRODS SOVIET ON GERMAN UNITY; Britain and France at Same Time Ask Moscow to Renew Big 4 Talks on Subject Notes Called Exploratory Soviet Reminded of Accords U.S. PRODS SOVIET ON GERMAN UNITY Soviet Defers Reply to Bonn Germans Pleased at Notes Bundestag Hopes for Unity
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
War and Peace
The must-have
Yahtzee
You Share a Birthday With
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884)
- Amitabh Bachchan (1942)
- François Mauriac (1885)
- Bobby Charlton (1937)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
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
25,439 days ago
(69 years, 254 days)