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Tuesday, January 14, 1958
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The Headlines
PEACETIME PEAK; Estimates Are Based on Expected Upturn in Business Soon President Asks 73.9 Billion in Record Peacetime Budget Stressing New Weapons NO TAX INCREASE CALLED FOR IN '58 Eisenhower Sees Business Upturn Lifting Receipts of Federal Government
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
At the Hop
Danny & the Juniors with Artie Singer
#1 at the box office
Sayonara
The must-have
Hula Hoop
You Share a Birthday With
- 1949 (1849)
- Albert Schweitzer (1875)
- Yukio Mishima (1925)
- Giulio Andreotti (1919)
- Mehmed VI (1861)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
cooldigfar outhipsquare
Tech Check
Integrated Circuit (Microchip), Stereo Records & Modem.
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
24,979 days ago
(68 years, 159 days)