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Sunday, May 5, 1963
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The Headlines
STATE LAW BARS '64 CITY ELECTION; New Plan to Rule Out Vote on a Successor to Wagner if He Runs for Senate LAW BARS VOTE FOR MAYOR IN '64 Sees Law Clarified Oil-Storage Regulations
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
How the West Was Won
The must-have
Easy-Bake Oven
You Share a Birthday With
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846)
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921)
- Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
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
23,042 days ago
(63 years, 47 days)