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Sunday, November 12, 1961
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The Headlines
HIGH HOPES THAT LED TO DISILLUSION; WRITERS ON THE LEFT: Episodes in American Literary Communism. By Daniel Aaron. 460 pp. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World $7.50. Our Literary Radicalism in This Century Reflected a Concern for Human Suffering Our Writers Held High Hopes That Led to Disillusion
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Slang of the decade
General
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Hippie
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Surfer
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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
23,581 days ago
(64 years, 221 days)