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Sunday, January 8, 1961

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The Headlines

KENNEDY TO KEEP 2 TOP ADVISERS ON SOVIET POLICY; Will Retain Thompson in Job in Moscow and Bohlen as an Assistant to Rusk PLANS TO MEET KENNAN Merchant as Paris Envoy and Bruce for London Post Are Expected KENNEDY TO KEEP TWO TOP ADVISERS

Read in The New York Times →

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Wonderland by Night

Bert Kaempfert

The must-have

Slip 'N Slide

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bummerfoxhunkscam

Hippie

flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on

Surfer

cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly

Catchphrases of 1961

  • Ask not what your country can do for you

Tech Check

Space Capsule (Vostok/Mercury), Electric Toothbrush & Industrial Robots (Unimate).

Cost of Living (1960)

Loaf of Bread

$0.20

Gallon of Gas

$0.31

Average Home

$11,900

New Car

$2,600

Time Elapsed

23,890 days ago

(65 years, 165 days)