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Saturday, February 2, 1963

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The Headlines

PRESIDENT READY TO RESUME TESTS AS PARLEY HALTS; Orders Preparation for New Underground Atom Blasts --Talks Deadlocked ISSUE TAKEN TO GENEVA Soviet Ask Renewal There-- Rusk Asserts Inspection Snag Is Top Problem Kennedy Halted Tests Status of Trials in Doubt President Set to Resume Tests As Talk on Ban Is Deadlocked Theory Is Advanced

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The must-have

Easy-Bake Oven

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bummerfoxhunkscam

Hippie

flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on

Surfer

cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly

Catchphrases of 1963

  • I have a dream

Tech Check

Touch-Tone Phone, Computer Mouse (Prototype) & Instant Replay.

Cost of Living (1960)

Loaf of Bread

$0.20

Gallon of Gas

$0.31

Average Home

$11,900

New Car

$2,600

Time Elapsed

23,134 days ago

(63 years, 139 days)