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Tuesday, August 22, 1961
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The Headlines
BRIDGE PROPOSED TO RIKERS ISLAND; Mrs. Kross Says Link With Queens Would Enable City to Put All Jails Together BRIDGE PROPOSED TO RIKERS ISLAND
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Wooden Heart
Joe Dowell
#1 at the box office
The Guns of Navarone
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
You Share a Birthday With
- Deng Xiaoping (1904)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Ray Bradbury (1920)
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
- Pope Leo XII (1760)
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
23,663 days ago
(64 years, 303 days)