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Friday, April 28, 1961
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The Headlines
KENNEDY CONFERS ON ACTION IN LAOS IF TRUCE BID FAILS; Meets Advisers and Leaders From Congress to Study Ways to Counter Reds SITUATION CALLED GRIM Aid to Other Asian Nations Weighed at Two Sessions Held in White House KENNEDY CONFERS ON ACTION IN LAOS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Runaway
Del Shannon
#1 at the box office
The Absent-Minded Professor
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Hippie
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Surfer
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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
23,779 days ago
(65 years, 54 days)