Thursday, December 18, 1958

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The Headlines

PERSONAL INCOME RISES TO A PEAK; November Gain Assures a Record for the Year

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Tom Dooley

The Kingston Trio

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Hula Hoop

On This Day

• Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Joseph Stalin (1878)
• Steven Spielberg (1946)
• Willy Brandt (1913)
• J. J. Thomson (1856)
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863)

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Tech Check

Integrated Circuit (Microchip), Stereo Records & Modem.

Cost of Living (1950)