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Sunday, June 4, 1961
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The Headlines
NEWS OF THE RIALTO; Leo Kerz Adds Two Scripts to His Collection -- Nichols-May Closing
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
On This Day
Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
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You Share a Birthday With
- George III (1738)
- Bronisław Komorowski (1952)
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867)
- Karolos Papoulias (1929)
- François Quesnay (1694)
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
23,742 days ago
(65 years, 17 days)