Friday, April 15, 1960

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The Headlines

Peugeot Boy Freed; Some Ransom Paid; PEUGEOT BOY SAFE AFTER KIDNAPPING

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Theme from A Summer Place

Percy Faith

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Etch A Sketch

On This Day

• At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
• Leonhard Euler (1707)
• Nikita Khrushchev (1894)
• Kim Il Sung (1912)
• Émile Durkheim (1858)

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)