Saturday, October 21, 1961

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The Headlines

NEW RIOTS RAGE IN DOMINICAN CITY; Police Use Rifles and Gas in 5th Day of Violence

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Runaround Sue

Dion

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Slip 'N Slide

You Share a Birthday With

• Alfred Nobel (1833)
• Benjamin Netanyahu (1949)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
• Carrie Fisher (1956)
• Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)

Slang

Tech Check

Space Capsule (Vostok/Mercury), Electric Toothbrush & Industrial Robots (Unimate).

Cost of Living (1960)