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Monday, June 17, 1963
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The Headlines
SOVIET ORBITS WOMAN ASTRONAUT NEAR BYKOVSKY FOR DUAL FLIGHT; THEY TALK BY RADIO, ARE PUT ON TV; PREMIER IS JOYFUL Phones Spacewoman --She Tells World She Feels Fine Saw Colonel Launched Purpose of Flights 'Seagull' and 'Hawk' Soviet Sends a Woman Astronaut Into Orbit Close to Col. Bykovsky for Dual Flight THEY CONVERSE; BOTH SEEN ON TV She Says She Feels Fine --Khrushchev Talks to Her From the Kremlin Lieutenant Replies
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
How the West Was Won
The must-have
Easy-Bake Oven
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
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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
22,999 days ago
(63 years, 4 days)