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Wednesday, March 1, 1961
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The Headlines
PRESIDENT URGES TRUCK TAX RISES TO PAY FOR ROADS; He Calls It 'Only Fair' for Heavy Users to Take on Greater Share of Costs CUT IN GAS LEVY FOUGHT Kennedy Is Also Opposed to Any Deficit Financing -- Scores Billboard Use PRESIDENT URGES TRUCK TAX RISES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Pony Time
Chubby Checker
#1 at the box office
Exodus
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Frédéric Chopin (1810)
- Yitzhak Rabin (1922)
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892)
- Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956)
- Harry Belafonte (1927)
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
23,837 days ago
(65 years, 112 days)