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Thursday, January 26, 1961
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The Headlines
$150,000 Gift From Publisher Assures Central Park Theatre; Delacorte Wipes Out the Gap Between $225,000 Estimate and $370,820 Low Bids Publisher's Gift of $150,000 Assures Central Park Theatre
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
The Shirelles
#1 at the box office
Swiss Family Robinson
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
You Share a Birthday With
- Douglas MacArthur (1880)
- Paul Newman (1925)
- Ellen DeGeneres (1958)
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen (1953)
- Angela Davis (1944)
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
23,871 days ago
(65 years, 146 days)