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Sunday, May 1, 1960
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The Headlines
REFUNDING LURES FEW SPECULATORS; Treasury's Refinancing Will Apparently Be Lacking in Market Outsiders REFUNDING LURES FEW SPECULATORS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Stuck on You
Elvis Presley
#1 at the box office
Ben-Hur †
The must-have
Etch A Sketch
On This Day
Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
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)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
24,142 days ago
(66 years, 52 days)