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Wednesday, October 11, 1961
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The Headlines
Peiping Puts Talks Of Foreign Chiefs Up to Washington; CHEN PUTS TALKS UP TO WASHINGTON
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Hit the Road Jack
Ray Charles
#1 at the box office
The Hustler
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
You Share a Birthday With
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884)
- Amitabh Bachchan (1942)
- François Mauriac (1885)
- Bobby Charlton (1937)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758)
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
23,613 days ago
(64 years, 253 days)