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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
#1 at the box office
Spartacus
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
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)