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Friday, October 13, 1961
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The Headlines
PRESIDENT WARNS OF LONG STRUGGLE WITH COMMUNISM; At Chapel Hill, He Decries 'Illusion' of Total Defeat or Total Victory Soon Kennedy Warns of Long Struggle With Communism to Win Peace
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Hit the Road Jack
Ray Charles
#1 at the box office
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
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
23,612 days ago
(64 years, 252 days)