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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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Big Bad John

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The must-have

Slip 'N Slide

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

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Hippie

flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on

Surfer

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Catchphrases of 1961

  • Ask not what your country can do for you

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)