Saturday, January 9, 1960

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The Headlines

40,000 BERLINERS MARCH TO PROTEST ANTI-SEMITIC ACTS; Youths Parade Past Rebuilt Synagogue After Rally at Nazi Victims Memorial BERLINERS STAGE ANTI-NAZI PARADE

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

El Paso

Marty Robbins

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Etch A Sketch

On This Day

• President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Richard Nixon (1913)
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
• AD 727 (727)
• Karel Čapek (1890)
• Joan Baez (1941)

Slang

Tech Check

Laser, Echo Satellite & Etch A Sketch.

Style of 1960

Silhouette: A-line and geometric (Mod)

Material: PVC and polyester

• Miniskirts
• Go-go boots
• Pixie cuts

Cost of Living (1960)