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Friday, December 4, 1959
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The Headlines
STORE INSPECTOR HELD IN PERJURY IN MEAT SCANDAL; Markets Worker Is Charged With Denying He Talked to Confessed Extorter STORE INSPECTOR HELD IN PERJURY
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
A Summer Place
The must-have
Barbie Doll
You Share a Birthday With
- Francisco Franco (1892)
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875)
- Thomas Carlyle (1795)
- Jeff Bridges (1949)
- Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
cooldigfar outhipsquare
Tech Check
Xerox 914 Copier, Microchip (Planar) & Pacemaker.
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
24,290 days ago
(66 years, 200 days)