Thursday, July 14, 1960

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The Headlines

Union Forcing Plant To Return to City; UNION IS FORCING PLANT TO RETURN

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

I'm Sorry

Brenda Lee

#1 at the box office

Ben-Hur †

The must-have

Etch A Sketch

On This Day

• Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.

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• Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 ditches off Polillo Island in the Philippines, killing one person and injuring 44.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Gerald Ford (1913)
• Ingmar Bergman (1918)
• Gustav Klimt (1862)
• Cardinal Mazarin (1602)
• Gavrila Derzhavin (1743)

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)