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Friday, June 2, 1961
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The Headlines
KENNEDY STUDIES DEFENSE ISSUES WITH DE GAULLE; Both Sides Silent as Parley Takes Up Rift on NATO -- Talks to End Today Kennedy Studies Defense Issues With de Gaulle in Second Day of Paris Talks BOTH KEEP SILENT ON KEY PROBLEMS French Insistence on Role for Europe in Nuclear Strategy Is Snag
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Running Scared
Roy Orbison
#1 at the box office
The Pleasure of His Company
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
You Share a Birthday With
- Pope Pius X (1835)
- Thomas Hardy (1840)
- Marquis de Sade (1740)
- Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857)
- Pope Leo XI (1535)
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
23,745 days ago
(65 years, 20 days)