Monday, August 31, 1959

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The Headlines

Autumnal Curtain Falls Over Moscow; Autumn Mood Seizes Moscow; Chill Winds End Happy Summer

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Barbie Doll

On This Day

• A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Tsai Ing-wen (1956)
• Maria Montessori (1870)
• Théophile Gautier (1811)
• Richard Gere (1949)
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821)

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Tech Check

Xerox 914 Copier, Microchip (Planar) & Pacemaker.

Cost of Living (1950)